Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb601f393b523274…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

69.0 KB Created: 2009-07-08 20:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0
MD5: 891375bb54a34d0761a69f461a93ec23 SHA-1: ecb1920ad35def7ebcc00626159132ec1988c5e8 SHA-256: bb601f393b5232749c9a94a8a2251f6e9650fd2f3cc4c619d71f7faead546770
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an OLE document containing VBA macros, with high-severity firings for both OLE_VBA_MACROS and OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN. The presence of AutoOpen and AutoClose macros indicates an attempt to automatically execute code when the document is opened or closed. The macros are likely designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access and further system compromise. No specific family could be identified from the available evidence.

Heuristics 3

  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
8dfd95711449b9ec1142651e34f49df7d7852628481a3a3e01f0b8829769dc39
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10280 bytes