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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4522319401ef850…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

35.0 KB Created: 2010-05-20 23:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 10.0
MD5: b2d2868cd5119fb1539ee72dd858b51b SHA-1: ee8473c4cef727a1d4c164d7b63e5c41cc03a02f SHA-256: e4522319401ef8501917c737a517eb43057127f317de95e2bae04e1fa2c6feff
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The document body presents itself as a job application for a 'Survival Center Co-Director Position', a social engineering lure. The presence of a Document_Open macro indicates the potential for automatic execution upon opening the document, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-8' further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
06d8b38a317377d80acbc28cd178ec410ded92e796ab90457409f9756b921d85
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2374 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely