Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0 — Office (OOXML) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9af4d0440160631b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

1.72 MB Created: 2018-08-08 14:49:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 15.0000 First seen: 2018-08-14
MD5: c1ccc6ae18fbffc0a6c5fd79330c482a SHA-1: 883cce5b170330fe09359ea75b58d14d873ba6d9 SHA-256: 9af4d0440160631b78b44adc7857557c6633b57ddb7e15e3a44c1eb0d11e9359
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as a malicious Office document containing an embedded OLE object. This object is a script dropper that combines shell execution with network fetching capabilities, indicating it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0
  • Ole10Native package payload is a download-and-execute script critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DROPPER
    The OLE Package's embedded payload contains a script that hosts a shell (PowerShell/WScript/mshta), fetches a remote resource, and executes it — a download-and-run dropper. Embedding such a script inside an Office document via the Object Packager is a direct user-execution delivery technique (MITRE T1204.002), not a benign attachment.
  • Ole10Native package drops an auto-executable payload critical OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in a directly auto-executable extension (a runnable binary or a script the default shell host runs on double-click). Embedding such a payload inside an Office document has no benign authoring use — it is a malware-delivery dropper.
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • Payload URL recovered from embedded OLE object (1 URL) info OOXML_EMBEDDED_OBJECT_URL
    An embedded OLE object (xl/word/ppt embeddings) carries a next-stage download URL in its Ole10Native/Package stream — stored literally (incl. UTF-16) or base64-encoded — which the package-level URL sweep does not see. Surfaced as an IOC; self-validating (only real payload hosts).
  • 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.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/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/pdf/1.3/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixesIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettingsEmbedded OLE package script

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 4325888 bytes
SHA-256: d79c9e187046ab510bb2d4f621d4b203b878730e504c06c30ab67a3ca6c6803c
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS, SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryW, GetProcAddress, shell32.dll, ShellExecuteW, LoadLibraryExA, VirtualProtect
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 4289839 bytes
SHA-256: 1b1f344f3d650f0077f0e68b4f534c6f1032112cf8f8a4d3833af2cd532454f7
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Dropper.NetWire-7947909-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS, SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryW, GetProcAddress, shell32.dll, ShellExecuteW, LoadLibraryExA, VirtualProtect
emf_00.emf ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image2.emf 5456 bytes
SHA-256: b22da3b44f0a8dc39770bb1fd74430ee09f3f570f20e9b5728d7f6e2d93c40aa