Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5129054dab89aea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

70.0 KB Created: 2001-05-24 18:28:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0
MD5: 3dae553eaa4fb5c2c15ae98bd4e813f2 SHA-1: dea28302e55eb78b8dc062aed3c64390163cfdc2 SHA-256: d5129054dab89aeab48d5bc068bea5f204dd9935e0bac43ce43e53f950c48abf
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-8'. Static analysis detected VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening the document. The document body contains academic text, likely a lure to encourage macro execution for downloading a second-stage payload.

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
1afd51e648174890b9453b7276d4c2753b784bde43597a5ea747e6df0143f7be
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2016 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely