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

Heuristics 9

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 7 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
  Potential Shell call in VBA
  Matched line in script

      Dim shell As Object

• VBA downloads and writes a file to disk critical OLE_VBA_HTTP_DROP_EXEC
  VBA reads an HTTP response body and writes it to disk (ADODB.Stream SaveToFile). Combined with the auto-exec/Shell paths this is a download-drop dropper even when the COM ProgIDs are built dynamically to evade keyword scanning.
  Matched line in script

          .Write http.ResponseBody

• Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
  VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  Matched line in script

      Dim shell As Object

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

      Set http = CreateObject("M" & "SXML2" & ".XMLHTTP")

• VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
  Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
• Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
  Document_Open macro
  Matched line in script

  Private Sub Document_Open()

• Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
  Environ() call (env variable access)
  Matched line in script

      payloadPath = Environ("T" & "EMP") & "\" & "p" & "a" & "y" & "l" & "o" & "a" & "d" & ".e" & "x" & "e"

• 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas Referenced by macro

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006Referenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2019/extlstReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2023/wordml/word16duReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2024/wordml/sdtformatlockReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeReferenced by macro

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