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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e77b89adbbb8a9e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

54.5 KB Created: 2010-02-17 13:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.1
MD5: a63b713fec49f547257efe23e3e65958 SHA-1: 21f731acf30be3f059f36c5eeab7e9421a1cdb1c SHA-256: e77b89adbbb8a9e223d9e69ff618f21025bb27d4aee9dd36cb63a022ebe237c5
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The document body is crafted as a permission slip for a school concert, designed to trick the recipient into enabling macros. The presence of the Document_Open macro and the malicious nature indicated by ClamAV detection strongly suggest that the VBA code is intended to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
174382551540ed8a2407a7b84dc489c18016425e7ff95262831585f6a8dc7fcf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2340 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely