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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b94241641ba748fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

143.3 KB Created: 2001-12-14 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: 438fe45be5206b09dbed0d92e3c50db1 SHA-1: 00ecd55b2fa58f0cb34ed68913cca294dc1549ea SHA-256: b94241641ba748fea9bd8991205b9fe5ef117dba394f1f41c0c227658af1b468
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information T1218 Signed Binary Proxy Execution

The document contains urgency lures, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. High-severity heuristics indicate the use of PEB access and API hash resolution, common in malware for evading detection. References to VirtualAlloc, VirtualProtect, LoadLibrary, and GetProcAddress suggest dynamic code loading and execution. The embedded URL likely leads to a malicious payload download. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent.

Heuristics 8

  • PEB access via FS segment (x86) high SC_PEB_ACCESS
    PEB access via FS segment (x86)
  • PEB API-hash resolver high SC_API_HASH_RESOLVER
    PEB access followed by ROR13-style API hashing, a common position-independent shellcode import resolver
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • Reference to VirtualAlloc API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALALLOC
    Reference to VirtualAlloc API
  • Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT
    Reference to VirtualProtect API
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://upiasia.com/columnist/plas_rapid_reaction_capability_in_tibet/