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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8c345886975131b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

39.5 KB Created: 2000-09-11 18:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 34ef68e538eec86255aaea4b94b98e1a SHA-1: b3c67152d5f73bd4970a52c3b909e5be01b318bf SHA-256: a8c345886975131b34e5deb8c2a6eefdc13ba38849bb62262f6feb2a925fe77b
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is an OLE document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The document body explicitly warns of a virus, likely a social engineering tactic to prompt the user to interact with or bypass security measures. ClamAV detected an embedded artifact as 'Doc.Trojan.Marker-2', indicating known malicious content.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 40,448 bytes but its declared streams total only 19,176 bytes — 21,272 bytes (53%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
71d0b45f06d6e439c36e96cbe26bb99816be75ff82bc48366d46b720d457aa38
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4648 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely