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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb438693d73bffc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.9 KB Created: 2020-12-29 20:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 926ed144ff9e4a624b48f9c80080fb97 SHA-1: cc69be2ddaff1c752fcacb48282216e996d5ebd2 SHA-256: bbb438693d73bffc0675f548a52a1639697b0acbc53423881708882b0a3ae949
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate the presence of a malicious downloader. Specifically, the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' and 'OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN' firings confirm that a 'Document_open' macro is configured to execute automatically, likely using 'CreateObject' to initiate malicious actions. The presence of VBA macros and the auto-execution pattern strongly suggest this document is a delivery mechanism for further malware. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted as a potential indicator in the heuristics.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
e5f9549007a41fec3f244ce297cfb2983cfeb314035104f84c750e8267247398
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8311 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.