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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea54e4d4ac0212d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

167.9 KB Created: 2020-09-14 13:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cba253f207f5588da69ee29160596b2f SHA-1: 409e59f6fb5868f577cbe77f33ef47e452bfe1a4 SHA-256: ea54e4d4ac0212d1a2c68933cf8e7f9ecedc449365a51363658f03e3d6308424
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 VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a 'macros.bas' file and the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing suggest the macros are designed to execute arbitrary code. While the document body is heavily corrupted, the heuristics point to a downloader pattern, likely fetching and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759988-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9759988-0
  • 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
f8f05dcf3e3edc2b86aaf635a586a86b3be75873e300dc406d21a4e9dd6169c2
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.