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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa0f442cfa98a367…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

194.5 KB Created: 2020-09-18 12:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8c1031c36dfb5b117c90520ce241152c SHA-1: df39820ae9e0e7532db1ae325f05fd00aa538f2f SHA-256: aa0f442cfa98a3670375843c5db6e6161fc637ccb4af3e93b80d3e676a7c239f
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the auto-execution of code, suggests the document is a downloader. The embedded URL, although marked as benign, is often a component in such attacks. The document body is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763532-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763532-0
  • 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
ba8241e4388725ade491e6e42da3e5f9cf169555b4f6e61ff9f624691af3445f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20213 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.