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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53c6133584f6245…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

155.1 KB Created: 2020-09-14 19:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 180f1965a2bd3f4907da4b4214537813 SHA-1: 768626ee6df37d43afaf60b9da183cec0a426d71 SHA-256: c53c6133584f62450a5d677c4e6b4d952099b50b10e90ed26e6a52053e476b1a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a malicious DOCX file containing VBA macros. The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA auto-execution (Document_Open, CreateObject, p-code auto-exec) strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a 'macros.bas' artifact further supports this. The VBA macros are likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the CreateObject heuristic and the auto-execution of the Document_Open macro. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics are sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760307-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760307-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
0b6180fea2f2eb783f5bda16a3b3f9aadc8aaa21f7b3f16e95bf573cb2bafb66
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18514 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.