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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a48a197539aed236…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

162.3 KB Created: 2020-09-23 21:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e7f0ee9044c037461fa2cbb679637e03 SHA-1: 8d4634f0e8d58a32ea7e2b5988263ed45705107f SHA-256: a48a197539aed2368c68f377ee4e1a8886412cabd39050e98b3fab282c089d39
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-exec macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject, indicating it is designed to perform actions upon opening. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader' strongly suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified, but the behavior is consistent with a macro-based downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0
  • 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
73025ddea320f2b071eb07bf918853ac1d6bc1ed1503c9c9400830c79e2af1db
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19787 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.