Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4cc655c9afedf29…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

27.0 KB Created: 1993-09-28 14:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: d9d4836af3c06a798b68f79a6a7c3ee5 SHA-1: 1331327b8575fdeb7ba7676ff5dd01b228ea64ed SHA-256: c4cc655c9afedf29858b3c567c32789e77041bcfc44b27417807253bd759e5b5
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is a legacy Word document containing a WordBasic AUTOOPEN macro, which is a known technique for executing malicious code upon opening. The presence of this macro, combined with heuristics indicating an embedded and potentially obfuscated Office document, strongly suggests a dropper or downloader functionality. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Dropper.Agent-7119787-0' further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7119787-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7119787-0
  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A 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.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 19,200 bytes but its declared streams total only 0 bytes — 19,200 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).
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE 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.
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    The 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off00002100.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x2100 19200 bytes
SHA-256: 74c9b26abcb160ced802b41053893693ca05c397f4adef405aeecf942c7d22c5