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

Heuristics 8

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 6 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
  Potential Shell call in VBA
  Matched line in script

      Dim shell As Object

• PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PS
  PowerShell reference in VBA
  Matched line in script

      Dim powershellCommand As String

• Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
  VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  Matched line in script

      Dim shell As Object

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

      Set shell = CreateObject("WSc" & "ript" & ".Sh" & "ell")

• VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
  Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
• Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
  Document_Open macro
  Matched line in script

  Private Sub Document_Open()

• 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2019/extlstIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2023/wordml/word16duIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2024/wordml/sdtformatlockIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

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