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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed25e53f228f0e6a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

150.6 KB Created: 2020-09-24 10:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d2cc82983ead6c5936f56eabed788599 SHA-1: b98c105a3c21cf9dde50bd4e9f237f152fc2dc81 SHA-256: ed25e53f228f0e6adefcbb5ef3b1baa91d42dc2490712a0403a05c842b815ac2
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of VBA macros suggests the document is designed to execute code. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain encoded strings that likely form a PowerShell command, which is a common technique for downloading and executing further stages of malware. The embedded URL, while benign, is noted.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9765752-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Agent-9765752-0
  • 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
b39e572cf96864edb4f5c39daa3a8388f74111156690860ca53002be67bbf3ff
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20583 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.