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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af731db3ff0accea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

55.0 KB Created: 2021-10-17 15:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 531576d42fac0f02c88fdc36714d3d1c SHA-1: b792e083daa495aa9474e8fca8e885a6eef6b263 SHA-256: af731db3ff0accea3ed49292d5aaf903ea530de823197fd3eda5e21830c49b8d
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample contains a VBA macro that executes automatically upon opening the document. This macro writes a file named 'fishside.cm' to disk, which appears to be a script containing commands to download and execute a second-stage payload, 'soleApp11.exe', from 'https://searcer.x24hr.com/a/soleApp11.exe' and save it as 'lineyes.exe' in the public documents directory. The script then executes 'lineyes.exe'.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
e5d39f8bbb69bd511fb4997c9339321b8c15519b7b2b0c45a7be281f74a7728f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 905 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.