Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b301c4c0077250e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

216.0 KB Created: 2008-11-19 17:54:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.3.8
MD5: a3879bcf6785945cf56d44009b25960e SHA-1: b31f14fc724f4316fd36376cbdc135f22c159049 SHA-256: 9b301c4c0077250e6ebaf97a3793ba598bc31bdc6da4a63e8276f490a808f05e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initiating malicious activity. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature. The presence of an embedded URL, although benign, suggests a potential delivery vector. The Document_Open macro is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-40
  • 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
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d41c9267beb7aeb9002f6cfedc0d926f627e1f4f0feade367b7ea63422dfcbca
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4225 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely