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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d00c4fccf199a7c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .RTF

89.5 KB Created: 2010-03-19 12:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0
MD5: 4b45dc72c5dd887ba183caadd94e1945 SHA-1: c9aa17fb01fab09ec6e192e1890c4fd350eab31d SHA-256: d00c4fccf199a7c9b79461904a67f20f6d3618296ba1b77d71e636971f2672e5
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an RTF document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. ClamAV detected the file as Doc.Trojan.Thus-8. The document body discusses Barack Obama, likely as a lure to engage the reader. No specific IOCs like URLs or hashes were extracted, but the presence of macros and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
5c0a78c50697456b5e5d83c30878799a02209ec4cb7219411f6d4e3edde0141b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2396 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely