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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a917911a467d1b4f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

926.0 KB Created: 2001-12-14 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: 006876b3632557206178494a082ce183 SHA-1: ccc0e132eb9a5d46aa78770d8f10981e5edd3b03 SHA-256: a917911a467d1b4f36dc7502137498261740066ad64a7ad96794477e5f26d851
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious OLE document that contains a large amount of slack space, indicating potential obfuscation or embedded content. A high-severity heuristic firing for ShellExecute API usage suggests the document is designed to launch an external process. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the attack's intent. Given the ShellExecute firing, the most likely attack pattern is that the document attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 2

  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 948,224 bytes but its declared streams total only 94,801 bytes — 853,423 bytes (90%) 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).