Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdfceb3010dbaa6f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

97.0 KB Created: 2000-11-17 00:58:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 1c4bc48c9024d58793fc5b9238194e93 SHA-1: bcc3a890421ff89125756dde4eb99c2a82f4ecd3 SHA-256: bdfceb3010dbaa6fd54f9671c6732994ae34fb764122a65437a140f48b260073
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains a high-severity heuristic indicating the presence of an Equation Editor OLE object, a known exploit vector. Additionally, VBA macros are detected, including AutoOpen and Auto_Close, suggesting malicious code execution upon opening or closing the document. ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Trojan.JulyKiller-3' further confirms its malicious nature. The document body, though containing technical text, is likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.JulyKiller-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.JulyKiller-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
b3434d6eb487b3bb63e7d200f96a39378070b0d51d152171497f6c462e042104
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 26686 bytes