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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd49f6f6b2b1cbf2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

259.0 KB Created: 2020-10-29 09:30:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8a7a1728eff8145001b0f48124b55fea SHA-1: 2b1831aa1acd120ff8d82518cd371f6636ef5a05 SHA-256: cd49f6f6b2b1cbf28331a1eff67e7179731f34a790a1bb69c89b65ffcfc38e01
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an auto-executing Document_Open macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for downloading and executing additional payloads. The ClamAV heuristic 'Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0' further supports this, indicating a downloader functionality. No specific family could be identified, but the behavior is consistent with a macro-based downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9785156-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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.
  • 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
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2c8aded1cc33908777d3554a19067d8f93ed6d8269cc13dcdcff33eca45ebd5f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18919 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.