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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb74b34d12824fcd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

102.0 KB Created: 2010-08-06 09:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8e2f44da47bd42452855db8226c9b26e SHA-1: 88a905a3b4e9f810194323c94592b39f0efdb41b SHA-256: bb74b34d12824fcdfaacbf57d21e44c8888e811e7246f8d31b35008f1d4ffc68
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell

The document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, using a fake 'New User Access Request' form as a lure. The presence of VBA macros and a critical 'Shell()' call heuristic indicates that the document is designed to execute malicious code. The embedded URLs, while appearing to be from a legitimate bank, are likely used to lend credibility to the scam. The VBA macros are suspected to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://www.lloydstsb.com/personal.asp
    • http://www.lloydstsb.com/media/lloydstsb2004/logos/logo_lloydstsb.gif
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/contentType
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/properties/metaAttributes
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/properties
    • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/fields
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/documentManagement/types
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/metadata/core-properties
    • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://purl.org/dc/terms/
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/internal/2005/internalDocumentation
    • http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2003/04/02/dc.xsd
    • http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2003/04/02/dcterms.xsd
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/customXml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/metadata/longProperties
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/cus�����
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
36adceb2aea6dcaa8d1b7fe0128a8fc07c0b074f09be38c11d6e359eac4e3ea4		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12400 bytes

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