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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c73c3b2b3cd160b3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

195.5 KB Created: 2020-09-18 21:15:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: db669535378cb0632e80de5821b9c9cc SHA-1: be07547fc3fce31fc18c6d47f93aa5e4f71417d2 SHA-256: c73c3b2b3cd160b32aa1f2e305d8a1b37490be7366b48f3182c6eca9dfebfe52
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of a large VBA macro suggests it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763611-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763611-0
  • 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
27aa07f405fa9b3280133cc26ba8fa4c11df7235c7ef1a37f33a0286291c2144
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.