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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef712286c38c58d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

51.5 KB Created: 2004-12-07 12:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 9.0
MD5: 54699915c83873303351989ace215e13 SHA-1: fb0923846dc5de11ee7893676c0be6d0dd3f54a2 SHA-256: ef712286c38c58d9b4265a00859b7eb3ade2e6333cd890e857994d9b4d6fca39
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering AutoOpen, Document_Open, and Auto_Close events. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known malicious document (Doc.Trojan.Thus-10 and Doc.Trojan.Titch-3). The presence of these auto-executing macros strongly suggests the document's purpose is to run malicious code upon opening, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-10
  • 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.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • Auto_Close macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOCLOSE
    Auto_Close macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
c21d3bc5f079e3a335e2a459bd52c3e3f422af8698d910e9571afabccd0a9540
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4956 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Titch-3
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely