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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec3994399031e9c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

155.7 KB Created: 2020-12-30 13:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7968572787d7867ff1a6ee2dbe81fdb4 SHA-1: afc4f607f7e066fea88b58a694710d0f2095064c SHA-256: ec3994399031e9c03729b9c51069c839dcfefc07707959021f85d8250286ff43
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to automatically run code upon opening the document. This code likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Doc.Downloader' classification.

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
56a4885fb35696e61eb89c4193c6dbd09786b2db28cac633c3290a9c612d3393
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.