Sload — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadd8fb952a01c96…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

120.9 KB Created: 2018-10-02 18:52:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-11-13
MD5: 38435af190760b7b3dd98e63b8326064 SHA-1: f047a3f274ffa64dc2d44b5f7339dd65af243195 SHA-256: dadd8fb952a01c96e357031a37304ec26b38c58e8512c51179e254271e93d81b
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Sload · confidence 90%

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

The file is detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Sload-6827538-0, indicating it belongs to the Sload family. A legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker (AutoOpen) was found, suggesting an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. Although VBA macros could not be extracted, the presence of the auto-exec marker and the ClamAV detection strongly imply a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6827538-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6827538-0
  • 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.
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)