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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e415b43628a4dcd8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

112.0 KB First seen: 2026-05-16
MD5: 1c662a5900fa79c8f62b0e041e8f3234 SHA-1: 87c5064f76e30ecf3cfb3833735a685bfe139d48 SHA-256: e415b43628a4dcd86bab4c918b826566817a1bb670f894a2e45fa5e8dc010851
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is identified as a suspicious Office document masquerading as an Access database, indicated by the ACCESS_MASQUERADE_DROPPER heuristic. While VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of embedded URLs suggests a delivery mechanism. The file's true intent is likely to download and execute a secondary payload, but the specific nature of this payload cannot be determined without further analysis of the embedded content.

Heuristics 3

  • Embedded Office document has suspicious static findings critical EMBEDDED_OFFICE_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A CFB/OLE Office document was found inside another file type and its carved contents matched Office exploit or payload heuristics. This catches wrapped exploit documents where the top-level file routes to a PE, archive, or generic scanner instead of Office.
  • OLE document has large unaccounted-for region high OLE_SLACK_ANOMALY
    This finding applies to a carved embedded Office document found at a nonzero offset inside the submitted file, not directly to the top-level document. OLE file is 40,867 bytes but its declared streams total only 56 bytes — 40,811 bytes (100%) live in unallocated sector slack. This is the canonical hiding place for pre-macro-era Office exploit payloads (XOR-encoded shellcode reached via a parser pointer-corruption bug in the document structure).
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_office_off0001205d.ole embedded-office Embedded OLE/CFB Office body inside ole container at offset 0x1205D 40867 bytes
SHA-256: 3a294c4938a6450c65063c3489bc8ec983ef4c57a73037945da5d1e841bb399c