MALICIOUS
140
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.005 Visual Basic
The document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker (AutoOpen), indicating malicious intent. The document body masquerades as a free antivirus installation utility, instructing the user to click a macro button to install the software, which is a common social engineering tactic. The embedded OLE object exhibits anomalies, suggesting deliberate obfuscation or corruption to evade detection.
Heuristics 4
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Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGEA CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
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OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALYOLE file is 19,328 bytes but its declared streams total only 0 bytes — 19,328 bytes (100%) 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).
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Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXECOLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
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CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMSThe file begins with a valid OLE2/CFB header but exposes no directory streams. A non-empty compound document with an unreadable directory is anomalous — it is seen with truncated/corrupt files and, more importantly, with content deliberately shifted off byte boundaries to defeat parsers while the host application still recovers the object.
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
embedded_office_off00000880.ole |
embedded-office | Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x880 | 19328 bytes |
SHA-256: 7b65dcf380f54a72a6ec43554015224ee9955e2d2d535e6dc60f6cbe393cac02 |
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