IcedID — Office (OOXML) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce7e29a63e5708fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

152.8 KB Created: 2020-10-26 20:24:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: bc7005480f9ded7980d7a90329024772 SHA-1: fab6e1e0b2c01eacdd55acfe8a3804070470e1f2 SHA-256: ce7e29a63e5708fe079cd2af8714fb8b98a0a076f570dc7ddd66c53ad3955886
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

IcedID · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Dropper.IcedID-9799485-1, indicating the IcedID family. Static analysis revealed the presence of VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The CreateObject heuristic suggests the macro attempts to instantiate objects to perform malicious actions, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. No specific URLs or reconstructed strings were found in the provided evidence, but the ClamAV signature is a strong indicator.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.IcedID-9799485-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.IcedID-9799485-1
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen 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 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
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • 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/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
53437e6e8daa787682d129a034c5666536d3a58d913e65db0618f7038dbd4767
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 13861 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
c98c587973d76d5753544328fd83c0f4a843575425c2ff5f6ea77800972f889a
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 49152 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.