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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c391d84187ae6c4d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

213.0 KB Created: 2020-09-21 12:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f922c6cb5c5511e4f746b42369f07aa6 SHA-1: cc846ab4696f017fc6589d8d6ec9b6095466312b SHA-256: c391d84187ae6c4dae5f1931da4abe216e34a219b7e2ee95e68bf25b5aded93d
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering on Document_Open. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and GetObject, common for executing downloaded payloads. ClamAV identifies it as a downloader. The presence of VBA macros and the Document_Open auto-execution strongly suggests the intent is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9764508-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9764508-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
cea30dbaa44bcaf57fbcd15c35be69cfffbad74d3b69c3addc059acf5ad797f9
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19026 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.