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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9e5e99a04e37db7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

153.3 KB Created: 2020-09-24 05:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6e79b7dd15b3438da3452d63ba011536 SHA-1: 268d21b3e1131c7aa11a09439f1cd6bf7db7a131 SHA-256: d9e5e99a04e37db7783f369c532e2e6d5171b90a286f2c397fcd6356a1abcce9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro. The macro is configured to auto-execute upon opening, as indicated by the Document_Open heuristic. It utilizes CreateObject to likely launch a PowerShell command, as suggested by the PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firing. The DOC BODY content appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the VBA macro and its auto-execution trigger strongly suggest it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9765752-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9765752-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One 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://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
b0798fb7450882311ba60b57e039433588cb794c6cc8a10f75d1de73c5c7973a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19490 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.