Win.Trojan.Alex-6 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d8dc0eb6a90d18…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

20.0 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 4fb8ac9ad3e2c96a319c34e773cfe178 SHA-1: 00b2c9e713a607259c85089f8040f060b08c749e SHA-256: c4d8dc0eb6a90d1810fd1f5e2de4ef8ee7af521e4c4d3f9f568319f7a9e290f5
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Alex-6 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample exhibits legacy WordBasic macro virus markers, specifically 'TOOLSMACRO', and is identified by ClamAV as Win.Trojan.Alex-6. This indicates the file likely contains and executes malicious macros, a common method for delivering trojans.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Alex-6 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Alex-6
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.

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