Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d606087437196973…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

40.5 KB Created: 2006-07-10 06:04:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0
MD5: bbf59e2dd7f82da8a889cf46c92cbb0d SHA-1: 74658156590fe32ca5d7190b8026c7404d5dc1b2 SHA-256: d606087437196973e4663f2d3b0d1c92e62201cc5b836cf344dddd41c66ef003
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known malicious document, likely a Trojan. The document body discusses urbanism and public space, which appears to be a lure to encourage macro execution. The presence of a Document_Open macro strongly suggests the intent is to automatically run malicious code upon opening the document, likely to download 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