Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96307c5a62e457f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.1 KB Created: 2020-09-23 21:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 58755f2cea0e43204a3708a1a504e6fe SHA-1: 2dfa3d53f81052b45a415ef8024dc04cbb439994 SHA-256: 96307c5a62e457f86a55e67c624892de7b841d9f9e37545fff75861f6ff6e749
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is designed to run automatically when the document is opened. The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate this is a downloader. The Document_Open macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for executing arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d7dd2a73d7d39dc729b85cfde71706f8b2534ea5cd633d43e9c623fb8097a814
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20294 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.