Win.Trojan.Tribute-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd8b316ae641c3f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

15.0 KB Created: 1998-01-30 16:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 6cd0f41a68d2fd5abc2b2ad9e3a398a2 SHA-1: 09f1c0b9c65eea5089ddad1c3bcebcc6104adc79 SHA-256: bd8b316ae641c3f81b4916ca8d8ee2ff08f8699a5144cc41ac287389b23938c3
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Tribute-2 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically identified by the 'ToolsMacro' heuristic firing. ClamAV detection confirms it as Win.Trojan.Tribute-2. The document body contains strings like 'AutoOpen' and 'AutoClose', which are common entry points for macro execution in older Office documents, indicating a likely intent to run malicious code upon opening.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Tribute-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Tribute-2
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.

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