Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad5faaf347279f4a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

12.0 KB Created: 1601-01-01 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: e661e6309dd7c6bd645a987af8262f6a SHA-1: a718480d515094ca559db287f46d1c7a13da74bb SHA-256: ad5faaf347279f4ac064bcdece6d0b5ec17c143fca9cf1288ce89a61a6e0b35e
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with multiple signatures, including Win.Trojan.Npad-1 and Legacy.Trojan.Agent-455. Static analysis detected a legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker ('autoOpen'), indicating an attempt to run code automatically when the document is opened. The embedded OLE structure also shows suspicious findings, suggesting a complex malicious payload.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Npad-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Npad-1
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    The file begins with a valid OLE2/CFB header but exposes no directory streams. A non-empty compound document with an unreadable directory is anomalous — it is seen with truncated/corrupt files and, more importantly, with content deliberately shifted off byte boundaries to defeat parsers while the host application still recovers the object.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off0000144f.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x144F 7089 bytes
SHA-256: 3fd443514f7730bfdefb04e759f0db587b841865ae746e12f725da20251fc9e7
Detection
ClamAV: Legacy.Trojan.Agent-455
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely