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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bebb5cef836f8822…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

194.0 KB Created: 2020-10-22 20:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 68c5c50e3332eab1a62d964b35895808 SHA-1: dc28bef926aa00fcbf69627f9eae41e494218977 SHA-256: bebb5cef836f882251cdbc204e1393662bec03e543b8c477fed5a81b12f161cb
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing obfuscated VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes upon opening. Critical heuristics indicate it's a downloader, and ClamAV identifies it as 'Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0'. The obfuscated document body suggests an attempt to hide malicious intent. No specific download URLs or persistence mechanisms were directly extracted, but the presence of the 'macros.bas' file and the auto-execution of VBA code strongly indicate a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • 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
9ca879422c3203043eb02bf7332bfccca42d062c85606acaa47b14db718d1f57
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22796 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.