Win.Trojan.GoldSecret-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 977eac6c37d4906f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

12.5 KB Created: 1997-06-01 03:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: e972db3faf15ac7829df0b0a46410137 SHA-1: 997d9cb44b8043f7514435669bf8963948420d00 SHA-256: 977eac6c37d4906fdfd6b7467890cdaa23cdcf45ac6639c11b7d08edd4e34c42
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.GoldSecret-1 · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as Win.Trojan.GoldSecret-1 by ClamAV. It contains legacy WordBasic macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. These macros are often used to download and execute further stages of malware. The presence of AutoOpen and other legacy macro names suggests an attempt to exploit older Office vulnerabilities or functionalities.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.GoldSecret-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.GoldSecret-1
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.

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