Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Heuristics 8

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• WScript.Shell usage critical OLE_VBA_WSCRIPT
  WScript.Shell usage
  Matched line in script

  With CreateObject("wscript.shell")

• VBA macro-virus self-replication / AV tampering critical OLE_VBA_MACRO_VIRUS_REPLICATION
  VBA macro programmatically rewrites VBA project code through the VBE object model (CodeModule/VBComponents InsertLines/DeleteLines/AddFromString or OrganizerCopy) to copy itself into the global template and other open documents, and/or disables Office macro-virus protection (Options.VirusProtection = False). This is the defining behavior of the W97M document macro-virus family — self-replicating code with no benign document use, independent of any AV signature.
  Matched line in script

  .AddFromString iteratorRemoveList

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

  Set optionSelect = CreateObject("word.application")

• VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
  Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
• AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
  AutoOpen macro
  Matched line in script

  Sub autoopen()

• Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
• 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

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