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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d337bb26363556e0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

30.5 KB Created: 1997-12-13 17:52:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 32f2962c821c8385b8cc6ab820888b1f SHA-1: c9c5cfaf025c2f393bd43158716e2a0e915b753e SHA-256: d337bb26363556e093a67dd3d81b173436c88b06cab38aa8f4f39e3eb5e0323c
160 Risk Score

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. OLE file is 26,014 bytes but its declared streams total only 0 bytes — 26,014 bytes (100%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • CFB header with no readable streams medium OLE_PARSE_EMPTY_STREAMS
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. The file begins with a valid OLE2/CFB header but exposes no directory streams. A non-empty compound document with an unreadable directory is anomalous — it is seen with truncated/corrupt files and, more importantly, with content deliberately shifted off byte boundaries to defeat parsers while the host application still recovers the object.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off00001462.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x1462 26014 bytes
SHA-256: 46bc46c5b2d582859b47beb17e6eccc66612808934cedcc4ac287b5a2e90d433