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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3ef1d4374dd7dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

489.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:39:00
MD5: 56b05af86e5eabfaf09116b9355c7320 SHA-1: f2b4c687335ee1ee7786abe53c52e8817924e1dd SHA-256: dd3ef1d4374dd7dc49463c38c92376a9f88e795c00a59bb33c28bc9513e50940
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

The sample contains a VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. This macro appears to be responsible for dropping and executing a secondary payload. Specifically, it attempts to create a file named 'reform.doc' in the user's public documents folder with the password '2281337' and also attempts to establish persistence by writing to the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IAccessible2Proxy. The macro is partially truncated, which limits full analysis, but the intent to download and execute a second-stage payload is clear.

Heuristics 5

  • Office EPRINT stream contains EMF object high CVE related OLE_EPRINT_EMF_OBJECT
    OLE ObjectPool contains an EPRINT stream with EMF data. This is rare in normal documents and is CVE-2007-3893/MS07-046-family evidence when paired with Office exploit payload anomalies, but the malformed EMF record is not proven by this rule alone.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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/2006/encryption
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/password
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/keyEncryptor/certificate
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
6545c017c951dc2c50da94f34055cd666f82c1c4c6fbd7a20a63bfd0cefad56c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2917 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
854e3e07beb6bb9c21bff74ccccef6848bd93e50e82799e8e3234a4dbe40afc4
ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: ObjectPool/_1693007205/Ole10Native 326465 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.