Win.Trojan.Candyman-2 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9eb77ba17ab5c88…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

15.0 KB Created: 1997-05-22 14:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: c900ecf0d939a0a4121332b3e22c4285 SHA-1: fe7e8ca089f494aa8e8b8ebb4e8f77e4ae144562 SHA-256: d9eb77ba17ab5c885ed11d20ced6e941453ee311697b0876fc357e6659e99288
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Candyman-2 · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Win.Trojan.Candyman-2. Static analysis revealed legacy WordBasic auto-execution macros, specifically markers for 'AutoClose' and 'Autoopen'. These macros are designed to run automatically when the document is opened or closed, indicating an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely for downloading and running a secondary payload.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Candyman-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Candyman-2
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.

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