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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41818ed920ea3b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

661.0 KB Created: 2020-01-20 12:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 035d5788081cfe2c5bf4b9e6cf30f241 SHA-1: 4c345456ef260d883d1db37f684446e7262fad99 SHA-256: a41818ed920ea3b866c647cc5314d7311321968c41933d631722364ac2af91f4
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, including CreateObject and CallByName calls, which are indicative of malicious activity. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Downloader.Powdow-7643936-0' strongly suggests a downloader functionality. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely facilitates the download and execution of a second-stage payload, aligning with the downloader pattern.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Powdow-7643936-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Powdow-7643936-0
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • CallByName call high OLE_VBA_CALLBYNAME
    CallByName call
  • 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
4938a10c5a4d6d3516594363a7d0d810f0ccd0fbab9fba0cdafc5678cf7ce56a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8488 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 8 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.