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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3f53fe0c06eff9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

153.5 KB Created: 2020-04-27 12:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e47c120008dfd863e5c62b181c6dcde3 SHA-1: b5edae77fdad3721e999689e135c9d3eea368d9d SHA-256: e3f53fe0c06eff9d49dc813bf97c72d1731cd1d97be58c42b6d2723f72cf1bfc
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. The presence of ShellExecute and GetObject API calls, along with the 'macros.bas' artifact, strongly suggests that the VBA code is designed to execute arbitrary commands or download additional payloads. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The exact intent of the script is not fully discernible due to potential obfuscation, but it is highly likely to be a downloader or initial execution vector.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Mrcl-7723011-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Mrcl-7723011-0
  • Reference to ShellExecute API high SC_STR_SHELLEXEC
    Reference to ShellExecute API
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
69cd609721406862c3b8aed4ab56405786342e804e4aead5c49607582c96127d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 38597 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).