Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1537896ddc2ee52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

117.9 KB Created: 2018-10-02 22:41:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-10-13
MD5: fea3998ffbd9e2f7ef593a68589d4879 SHA-1: 77870d75de1d491b6deddbc59edb58e9432b1167 SHA-256: a1537896ddc2ee52cc1d06b82276ddb12a79c3477d49def47fe8585c12f38437
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a critical heuristic firing. The presence of a legacy WordBasic AutoOpen macro marker suggests an attempt to automatically execute malicious code upon opening. Although VBA extraction failed, the file's nature as a malicious document points towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.00536d-6705548-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.00536d-6705548-0
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    olevba could not extract VBA macros (AssertionError); format-agnostic byte-level scans still ran. Likely legacy, encrypted, or malformed OLE/OOXML — re-scanning the same bytes will yield the same outcome.
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In document text (OLE body)