Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b10bfed1cf4e56ec…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

117.0 KB Created: 2007-02-22 21:41:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.2
MD5: 0aad30d87826025536dd2347e3ac580f SHA-1: c1384ea8c155600890ccae53dd84cc7a70c27464 SHA-256: b10bfed1cf4e56eca14fef5d8cc7236f919c791db68a7052e72167a0ec0166f2
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic firing indicates the presence of a Shell() call within the VBA code, which is commonly used to download and execute additional malicious payloads. The extracted artifact 'macros.bas' and the ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Marker-31' further confirm its malicious nature. The document body content appears to be educational material, suggesting a lure to entice users to open the malicious document.

Heuristics 5

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
a6e5c85fb3677cb4df6e63e25f6d4e03ec413449a5367430fdcd3cd6592abc66
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6674 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-3
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.