Sload — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e96925f02b3a1c91…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

96.4 KB Created: 2018-10-05 15:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-11-20
MD5: 0f37763280cb06eae9b755ea82fd5afc SHA-1: b7d81513d87cfd4aa8f469b5c465fc210db05c86 SHA-256: e96925f02b3a1c911be15b229c4bbca4e42ddf679386cf485e3b99c71109ae41
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Sload · confidence 85%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Sload-6710134-0, indicating it functions as a downloader. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest the document is designed to lure the user into downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The specific ClamAV detection name points towards the Sload malware family.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6710134-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Sload-6710134-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)