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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5c3416f93427ca…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.6 KB Created: 2020-12-28 20:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a990c56fc488253a5eadbef64e031df8 SHA-1: 34e87ae5b4e33f7c6fc0c400673170483a99f818 SHA-256: ea5c3416f93427caf66867d56ac8a3737daaedd21d90a06dd2fd06d8f570624e
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject, indicating it attempts to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV detection and heuristic firings strongly suggest this is a downloader. The presence of VBA p-code auto-execution with execution tokens further supports the malicious intent. While the specific family is not definitively identified, the behavior is consistent with known malware downloaders.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
fc28b021e7c13690bd05b8fda29444b887d0bad8d106819ca318299d8abb8857
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6085 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.