Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb8f8e404f401f13…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

303.5 KB Created: 2008-03-27 07:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: abac87d7c83bd711ee1e0d986c354ed1 SHA-1: c80490c1f4fa8741eacbf41187c453a8f3a8d150 SHA-256: cb8f8e404f401f1375125596c23ebade46f365aee7bbd546807debe434f8cb43
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically AutoOpen and Document_Open, which are commonly used to execute malicious code upon opening the document. An extracted artifact named 'macros.bas' was also flagged as suspicious due to VBA Chr string obfuscation. The primary function of the detected macros is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the nature of Xaler trojans.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
61247e472c7b4ee8b867b844ad6a9e361263f9186b9673dd6b88479bffad49c0
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 254910 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Xaler-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.