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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f1465cf2e8a92e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

218.9 KB Created: 2020-10-28 16:03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3667de53d763a5a8ed0d41ecbdb39a66 SHA-1: 4c2a558ed5856ad61ac78179f5401ef8aa896863 SHA-256: a3f1465cf2e8a92e8d9f932ab8d561cd6a02e5f832b42bfa856a5cac7fb96566
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering on Document_Open. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, suggesting the macros are designed to download and execute additional content. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Generic' further supports this. No specific family could be identified, but the behavior is consistent with a macro-based downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0
  • 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
432b4517275395423e4145d722d6a456d77df175cda38550f4e26528858e8adb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18870 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.