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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9cea850b7a64523…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

156.3 KB Created: 2020-09-23 17:49:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 75dd739a2bf7ceb8a25e32767d41a26e SHA-1: 4285191e0c909fc5de71c1d311546759fc9f6386 SHA-256: e9cea850b7a645238c9b39eb7a1faf8093f63bcd9ab044d572ed112556c8ab71
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the auto-execution heuristic, strongly suggests the document is designed to run code upon opening. This code likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Mryv-9765643-0
  • 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
3fdc5dc9fa6dbe05ddbb5394ffbf1a5da353d311eafd75c86ddc522f2b658b58
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19358 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.