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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e78a96cc1eb23a69…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

176.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 22:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ea4f53b59535305988a8da9ca2234211 SHA-1: cabf348dafdd2ea97abea877e15a78871bfc6db7 SHA-256: e78a96cc1eb23a693bf46ee361123c3602a6f0be07b963613415f5d208afefb9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate the presence of a malicious VBA macro designed to execute automatically upon opening the document. This macro likely functions as a downloader for a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'Doc.Downloader' classification. No specific IOCs beyond the file itself were extracted.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763712-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763712-0
  • 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
f035cd1023dade0b5d5e126cbab797fd9aeb292e781548b39fa794a9356990ee
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19197 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.