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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3cd7451ef720df2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.5 KB Created: 2020-10-22 15:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8e8ff83597a976569b614c9e33f3877f SHA-1: df21b6149523066415cf9a0c06901d84a54d3e22 SHA-256: e3cd7451ef720df2cbc18258725e7d4e5b881f0ab970b5d1f9343c1d9754d2ac
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in macros.bas, combined with the auto-execution of Document_Open, suggests the primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
    Compiled VBA/cache stream contains an auto-execution token together with shell/download/object-execution tokens. This catches p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where visible source is unavailable.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
cecccb4a1113767f9883636c8aa1a2de57ced4949da2d8bcaf50534e5e598b34
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18857 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.