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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b24e36885da1e42…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

21.8 KB Created: 2024-10-30 00:45:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 1f9d2be9980612244c80cbe9767d44e6 SHA-1: faf1405874ef1070da0714cd911f9bb008a3962f SHA-256: 9b24e36885da1e4240c61dd91fbd847010e3586027eac940a2ecc7d8b55f3eef
340 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This OOXML document contains a Document_Open macro that utilizes the Shell() function and references PowerShell. The ClamAV heuristic 'Doc.Malware.Valyria-10002559-0' strongly indicates malicious intent. The document body presents a lure about an anime festival to encourage users to enable macros, which would then trigger the execution of the malicious script.

Heuristics 8

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
    PowerShell reference in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10002559-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10002559-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • 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
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f9f3eb3f8e3fc7c6f868ba30b07bcb5a9e5e1a3cc6c32b2d5737815650aaa1f3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 6152 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
0e9114359d71804165117d0d6c9e860fecb99cd0b9fd26be2236b94d394d3223
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 23040 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10002559-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.