Win.Trojan.Taguchi-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c76fd95bc7359cd1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

31.5 KB Created: 1997-09-20 20:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: fd3db44df5ca202f2aee22f8f2c27ebf SHA-1: 5c029437d4ad84b1022b857f360a9bf7d0b69982 SHA-256: c76fd95bc7359cd1d318b3ca9906d74e965bdfd3362bdf6f8467f8d209660a32
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Taguchi-1 · confidence 75%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Win.Trojan.Taguchi-1. It contains a legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker ('autoclose'), indicating potential for automated execution upon opening. The document body presents a narrative that could serve as a lure, though its specific intent is unclear without further analysis of the macro's behavior.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Taguchi-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Taguchi-1
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.