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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a76e5f0c9067cd2c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

165.0 KB Created: 2020-09-14 13:37:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d2bf17c6912a58a9d340dd648e9df3cd SHA-1: 164e30b6940edcfbc379cb691b6950d682aab84c SHA-256: a76e5f0c9067cd2cd19e85c30f44b763df4d42a5fd1c12cd4fe75cd8835de43b
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a Document_Open macro that executes an obfuscated PowerShell command. This command appears to be a stager designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The PowerShell command is heavily encoded and concatenated, making precise reconstruction difficult, but the presence of CreateObject and calls to system functions strongly suggests malicious intent. The ClamAV detection further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 8

  • Hidden UserForm PowerShell EncodedCommand stager critical OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL
    OLE document contains a UTF-16LE form/property string with an obfuscated PowerShell -EncodedCommand payload. The observed macro family reconstructs this hidden string with Split/Join or UserForm property reads and launches it through WMI/COM process creation. This is downloader malware, not an Office CVE exploit.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759989-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759989-0
  • 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
8c674f0aba5886399ddfdf2584c7c00f38b74378eb3e5f88c405aee7a4290c0b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22655 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.