Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02c929d2a7939a0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

53.5 KB Created: 2008-05-16 20:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.1
MD5: 17f5c0bc10335cfe010a7e0f81938dc4 SHA-1: ba05dbbb0655fa0d69222986e23ff14f4c38c551 SHA-256: a02c929d2a7939a0ced4c9414574534c2afedb644ea1b1f414e3cb36669c7069
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is an OLE document containing VBA macros. The critical heuristic 'OLE_VBA_SHELL' indicates that the macros attempt to execute commands via the Shell() function. The presence of 'macros.bas' and the ClamAV detections further confirm malicious intent. The document body consists of biology review questions, suggesting a lure to encourage macro execution. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging VBA macros to execute arbitrary commands, likely for downloading and running a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • 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.
  • 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 macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
75e96e55c97fa0f5d73a9b9611177fe06d03ed719fd57bbc8a7b2734b18c0f9a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6611 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-3
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.