Emooodldr — Office (OOXML) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeabaea8e1a978fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOC

140.3 KB Created: 2021-11-15 15:39:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 12.0000
MD5: 7d987aac2dba9450640fb15d860be5dc SHA-1: d1b28331e2b1c9d4ea09bdf8443dac74229ecbb1 SHA-256: eeabaea8e1a978fb94bbb03a4dd20c9259c9a65bdaee42ab5a777ca1ccba27a0
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emooodldr · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Downloader.Emooodldr-10031562-0. Static analysis revealed the presence of VBA macros, including a Document_Open macro, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. The extracted VBA macro code appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the use of `CreateObject` and `GetObject` calls, and the `FileQueryRange` function which suggests interaction with external files or URLs. The presence of `macros.bas` and `vbaProject_00.bin` further supports this.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emooodldr-10031562-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emooodldr-10031562-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • 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/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
e53e3734f5c43adf58370feee1b5707cc66f4a1c2cd43a48deedecacf5c12b3d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 4433 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
5b60dc7a2eb1fc39571b9ba3100b6dddb2a5fd500fbaf1f0943b73323a8b726d
vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 16896 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emooodldr-10031562-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.