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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3fa2642d482abe3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

259.0 KB Created: 2020-10-29 09:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a2a50dd68508afb76b73f1e2626b517c SHA-1: 11571ddd7ee1bed7b4a35133425f58549a07e437 SHA-256: b3fa2642d482abe33fb06c5480db8883954bb076b663c838f67dc4966b89f71d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing a Document_Open VBA macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, indicating it is designed to run malicious code upon opening. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Generic' strongly suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified, but the delivery mechanism is consistent with macro-based malware.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0
  • 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
2c8aded1cc33908777d3554a19067d8f93ed6d8269cc13dcdcff33eca45ebd5f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18919 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.