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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd227b07c577d52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

179.0 KB Created: 2020-10-22 15:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9a621cf5ea82cfe14eb84a00bd306445 SHA-1: 6226c0b417ccc6b933b681d84ddc3824758920f4 SHA-256: afd227b07c577d52646f947182d3f65be45a70cb65bbc5316ecfae58e51e33bd
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing a VBA macro. The macro is configured to auto-execute upon opening the document, indicated by the Document_Open heuristic. The presence of CreateObject calls and p-code execution suggests the macro attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0' further supports this. No specific family could be identified, but the behavior is consistent with a downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • 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
cecccb4a1113767f9883636c8aa1a2de57ced4949da2d8bcaf50534e5e598b34
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18857 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.