Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a98afc2ba00cabac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

46.5 KB Created: 2001-04-21 19:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 055821fa070c2ea21b472b6479f94f12 SHA-1: 7843d78d115dab2137b416ab4ad176245c54857c SHA-256: a98afc2ba00cabac681090b9b3c873c94bd402bb92d326d4580babb2601cb1cb
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is an OLE document containing VBA macros. Heuristics indicate the presence of a Shell() call within the VBA code, suggesting an attempt to execute external commands or payloads. The document body presents academic questions, likely as a lure to encourage macro execution. The embedded VBA macros were detected by ClamAV as 'Doc.Trojan.Marker-31' and an extracted artifact was detected as 'Doc.Trojan.Marker-1', indicating a known malicious pattern.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • 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.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2468be0c555d925f7999bd9a60efe2bf894d9204d62d4cccf1b73ad7cfb5461c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 24745 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.