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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccbda8a84dbeda1a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

1.06 MB Created: 2016-02-27 13:49:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 14.0000
MD5: 8b8e286f64a4635e12d6d728a5669d51 SHA-1: c75323c29e9cf4cdc5b91c607f439b74fcfc6398 SHA-256: ccbda8a84dbeda1a66780c76fd9f507778c9fb992c7eee87e99cc3ca314009ee
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Submitted Malware T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open macro that utilizes the Shell() function, indicating an attempt to execute external code. The presence of an embedded OLE object with Ole10Native indicators strongly suggests exploitation of CVE-2026-21514. The primary intent appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload through this embedded object.

Heuristics 9

  • OOXML Ole10Native with payload/link indicators — possible CVE-2026-21514 high CVE likely CVE_2026_21514
    Office document contains embedded OLE (word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin) with Ole10Native plus executable, PE, or risky remote-link indicators. This is a likely CVE-2026-21514 exploitation shape.
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Embedded OLE object medium OOXML_OLE_OBJECT
    Document contains an embedded OLE object
  • Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
    Environ() call (env variable access)
  • 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 https://ezgif.com/resize��
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
54d526fc9b6b75533b8ee577134776c98b60404b9b153f8a9d8c27dae36a823c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 4370 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
ooxml_oleobject_00.bin
50ff4e1a1acef85b97408c84a774e9c620a8ba9b373144483aab8025595295b0
ooxml-ole-object OOXML embedded OLE part: word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin 997888 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.82, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
ooxml_oleobject_00_ole10native_00.bin
4c26bd4dd861f5b7b99a9812a2ead9cbca91f5c18753b5ef2de1a19aa3a63b07
ole-package OOXML word/embeddings/oleObject1.bin Ole10Native stream: Ole10Native 987300 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.86, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
vbaProject_00.bin
740d3b00eb22a9c5e3a110e285fdc6464be08e321dffdcd4ee5653bfd2e10b6d
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 17408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
emf_00.emf
4a4ca0eaa5e6342cc0fad5c9c48871f42b93f5f1becd7d6de0099ea595e0f349
ooxml-emf OOXML EMF part: word/media/image6.emf 5108 bytes