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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1ca884c013a5f9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.5 KB Created: 2020-10-22 10:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3500f5e1f388939ad3f1847be3b1b86e SHA-1: 7ce999634c438b0c998d0b62e4572136b18c15be SHA-256: a1ca884c013a5f9d40fc0053aacfe172aaab646ac7a5f2c83ef7d3be8b0086a9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is designed to create objects and execute code. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0' strongly suggests a downloader functionality. The embedded URL, although benign according to the analysis, is often a component in such attack chains. The obfuscated document body text likely contains further instructions or lures, but the primary malicious activity is driven by the VBA macro's execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • 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
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f977b274eae3d98ca756a10910ec7f42c1a29b087c225685f92a2f289133a3d9
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18827 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.