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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c486351d233b4415…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

199.0 KB Created: 2007-09-18 04:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.
MD5: 74c46b5becdeef455b760da5d961eaad SHA-1: 40445bc0fb66a9d3d962a2062eeb342a0b18030d SHA-256: c486351d233b4415b8e23551778e1aaa5607f990a1deb3a6f1c7d920a4e796ce
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The OLE document exhibits significant slack space and an appended payload, indicating a likely attempt to conceal malicious content. While VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of these anomalies strongly suggests the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload. The exact nature of the payload and delivery mechanism remains unclear due to the inability to parse the macros.

Heuristics 3

  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 203,776 bytes but its declared streams total only 16,486 bytes — 187,290 bytes (92%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • OLE file has appended executable-looking payload bytes high OLE_APPENDED_PAYLOAD
    OLE compound file contains a large high-entropy region beyond the declared major streams and that region includes shellcode, PE, or loader API markers. This is a payload-carrier signal, not a specific CVE attribution by itself.
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    olevba could not extract VBA macros (PermissionError); format-agnostic byte-level scans still ran. Likely legacy, encrypted, or malformed OLE/OOXML — re-scanning the same bytes will yield the same outcome.