Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d937eefdd388f68…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

231.5 KB Created: 2007-12-03 01:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: ccab6c584a05f701c27fd93a731e1d3b SHA-1: 87054bff6056c2b59c41d94298cda70becad612d SHA-256: 9d937eefdd388f686e48db13272b9b930974b3368de7864b67356a4ee94d22e1
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The OLE document exhibits significant slack space and appended payload bytes, strongly suggesting it is a container for a malicious executable. The 'OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED' heuristic indicates that VBA macros could not be extracted, but the presence of appended data is a high-confidence indicator of malicious intent. Without extractable scripts or document body content, the specific attack vector remains unclear, but the file structure points to a downloader or dropper.

Heuristics 3

  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 237,056 bytes but its declared streams total only 16,486 bytes — 220,570 bytes (93%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    olevba could not extract VBA macros (PermissionError); format-agnostic byte-level scans still ran. Likely legacy, encrypted, or malformed OLE/OOXML — re-scanning the same bytes will yield the same outcome.