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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c61e31881c37b5c7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

864.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 08:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f04b83f20d19dc41825c9b8faed3ddb8 SHA-1: 9dec1bf3306ddccac70c7cb8105d89bc9f46eae6 SHA-256: c61e31881c37b5c71a0e8df7aa456773b23b0e951676c4960944392322eabf7c
622 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a malicious Office document containing an embedded PE executable and VBA macros. The 'Document_Open' macro is configured to execute shell commands, indicating it's designed to launch the embedded executable. This strongly suggests a downloader or droppper functionality, aiming to install additional malware. No document body text was available for analysis.

Heuristics 16

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • OLE with Ole10Native — possible CVE-2026-21514 exploitation high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Document contains a Word OLE object with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. CVE-2026-21514 exploits OLE metadata validation; this stronger structure is treated as likely exploitation.
  • Embedded PE executable critical OLE_EMBEDDED_EXE
    MZ/PE header found inside document — possible embedded executable
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Malwarex-9874388-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Malwarex-9874388-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • Reference to LoadLibrary API high SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY
    Reference to LoadLibrary API
  • Reference to GetProcAddress API high SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS
    Reference to GetProcAddress API
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • Ole10Native package carries executable/script file type high OFFICE_PACKAGE_RISKY_FILE
    OLE Package displayName or fullPath ends in an executable or script-capable extension. Even without UI extension spoofing, embedding a runnable payload inside an Office document is a high-risk delivery pattern.
  • 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.
  • Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT
    Reference to VirtualProtect API
  • 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 — context-specific rules above attribute URLs they actually evaluated; this rule lists URLs that were present in the bytes but were not otherwise tied to a specific finding.
    URL http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d271b1325d2e1626b5403f3c48765244b3e012139430d217da2b66e041e6c603
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2695 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
embedded_office_0008ea71.exe
14bbf0177f897128785671f1462c09b5c24774805a554ac244666db138b36a1c
embedded-pe Office MZ+PE at offset 0x8EA71 300431 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Malwarex-9874388-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
ole10native_00.bin
f4a8bfb2cdf4ba132c56c7af4b729acd4a62de08aabe58db2e867b9ede6c22fa
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1685829127/Ole10Native 258357 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Malwarex-9874388-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely