Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea3973df41d8b1cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

88.0 KB Created: 2008-03-12 21:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0
MD5: 77e7c0060740bb81461df53acbf7ad17 SHA-1: 0e5f98f44b79360a89f0196778cd4a51e3ad504b SHA-256: ea3973df41d8b1cc0c199c3a3374bcd445620a87ea990331839013adab6fd060
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The document body presents a Request for Proposal (RFP) to trick the user into enabling macros. The presence of VBA macros and the Document_Open heuristic strongly suggest this is a macro-based malware delivery mechanism. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Trojan.Story-1' further supports its malicious nature. No specific family could be identified, but the overall pattern is consistent with a downloader or droppper.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Story-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Story-1
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
53bdcc5d7cbd9f526c97b01f684aca0800a2b0f0ebe298ae57ebb54a2a1c04b0
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7018 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 9 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.