Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0c43d2ea384f527…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

63.5 KB Created: 2017-09-18 08:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2017-10-28
MD5: fbd5e50be5431491dfca976538da3747 SHA-1: 116602f9730fd3c0dc6c482c8928964c4d1a29f7 SHA-256: e0c43d2ea384f527dbb59538ca2b81488ca430a5578eab8d8ca90325cf9a2e0b
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of a legacy WordBasic autoopen macro and a heuristic firing for PowerShell indicate that this document is designed to execute malicious code. The autoopen macro is a strong indicator of an automated execution attempt upon opening the document. The PowerShell reference suggests the macro likely leverages PowerShell to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 318 bytes
SHA-256: 96921b95dbeb1d83e603b82b6a4f5c05466e2de5bd59fb37fc1ac94c63313bbd
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "Module1"

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