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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3c4f4f918261928…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

623.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 09:28:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9b4fcd22f6240318fa36a91922cfccf5 SHA-1: 795bbe08e711ccd3d1b9d6e49d6d85612f8f8e6f SHA-256: c3c4f4f918261928351db2ed00da67c43e9cb96d54b232252165f95653767b4c
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Microsoft Word document containing a VBA macro that executes upon opening. The macro appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the heuristic firings for OLE_VBA_MACROS and OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN. The script attempts to save a file to the user's template directory and then opens a password-protected document, suggesting a multi-stage infection process. The presence of the EMF object further supports malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/2006/encryption
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/password
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/certificate
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
bc308138c57d4a6ba0f565bd5b69a35a1cc451a3a034e1f3b14c42e0267e6211
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2795 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
ed56019e82a2755f3ffa14853769db4a78f2cd57161bddabfb79592eb3062d52
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1690845027/Ole10Native 451375 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.