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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b842862b97e1bb3b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.8 KB Created: 2020-09-14 22:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e02bf6432715ac4579c3a1a1707c2f1d SHA-1: 184858bd6fe97474598c70663cab165987260f79 SHA-256: b842862b97e1bb3bf480e0edfa445124eb165f8b8c6208cdc3b40a25acd5c103
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact and the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' heuristic strongly indicate that the VBA code is designed to run automatically upon opening the document. The heuristic 'OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ' suggests the macro attempts to instantiate objects to perform malicious actions, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760527-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760527-0
  • 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
bf2dc6e4793502154f28a14458af4f5198ccc48932a5641a4c34f7f1fcdc0c82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18582 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.