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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca38f7cbd7fbf3f9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

57.2 KB Created: 2006-01-25 08:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 4fbdc1bccbea6b8eb30cd4cef8115cbb SHA-1: 628db184706b89857e8d08e1a6d3d49697080466 SHA-256: ca38f7cbd7fbf3f972c9b56e9d4460f30ebc13e20b3e4f8b982e588198838f4a
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a malicious OLE document that contains a reference to the CreateProcess API, indicating an attempt to launch an external process. The document body is filled with unreadable characters, providing no contextual clues. Due to the lack of readable content and specific script details, the exact payload and delivery mechanism remain unclear, but the presence of CreateProcess is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Heuristics 2

  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    OLE file is 58,528 bytes but its declared streams total only 21,151 bytes — 37,377 bytes (64%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).