Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bb69dd30731df09…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

20.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 23:24:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: c1da43baa90503539209a8b3a5f553f0 SHA-1: 1f4df53f35aa1caf3a9a7af24c2409bad120310a SHA-256: 9bb69dd30731df092b01c6e4301eaa756f6adb25827d4c6881958fdfd7216e5d
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an OOXML document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The extracted VBA script utilizes Windows API calls to execute arbitrary command lines via `CreateProcessA`, suggesting it acts as a downloader or initial execution stage for further malicious activity. The presence of ClamAV detections further supports its malicious classification.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10012625-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10012625-0
  • 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.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — 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.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • 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/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahash
    • 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
3942f2dba2e2e9406dd3f1159c390b80925d501c786eeb496ac6f01c2c06da11
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 2152 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
8aa43c76bca8bde75390951f268693e407dedebfc9a89de088916ad87a6fcaa4
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 20480 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10012625-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely