Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · a74bb4fe88568907

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.4 KB Created: 2020-09-23 12:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: a760029c662cc72716f135ab4a4b38cf SHA-1: de016d929e447d1e0fff85a859329d3a4c3b7497 SHA-256: a74bb4fe8856890718cfe6e74662170dfb7510a006f324b6b71f95bed8a0da31

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro activity. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an auto-execution mechanism designed to run code upon opening the document. This code likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the generic downloader detection. The benign URL is likely a red herring or part of the document's structure rather than a malicious IOC.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9765533-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9765533-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `b40b6439e0e94acfcf6292a727f89f3b7b0e2a6faeddd230541e1164d0603753`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	19346 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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