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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42fb0237d91d366…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

181.5 KB Created: 2020-10-22 12:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f0344589e530ca6e9d52b267aab16d20 SHA-1: d0161021aa2f6ea75f5efb9edcc6f0f56d1fd083 SHA-256: a42fb0237d91d3669d3ddb1353e2c6a57f0f1d8ee8fce0bbd1f9d78c709f3820
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0, a known downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro, CreateObject calls, and VBA p-code auto-execution strongly indicates that the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The obfuscated document body content does not provide further clues about the specific lure, but the technical indicators are clear.

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
312ef617e63493e61b3bcd46b3231fa9b7aec5a75b005f32edf123ee68ffccb7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18806 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.