Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef9fc2e4bf1998f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

16.6 KB Created: 2017-10-18 12:30:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2017-11-13
MD5: 5aefd8c074cfc6ec192bbfda7373a7e0 SHA-1: 3b997152ce44e75a86b688e7f011016c3f9451ce SHA-256: ef9fc2e4bf1998f8b8fa510fe6d113a7ca090c13a35715cd15640f8dd1626b06
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious DDE command that executes cmd.exe to run a PowerShell script. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the URL http://hotelruota.it/kjhuAT61. The presence of the DDE command and the PowerShell execution strongly indicates a malicious document intended to deliver further malware.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Html.Malware.Agent-7789767-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Html.Malware.Agent-7789767-0
  • Malicious DDE command critical OOXML_DDE_MALICIOUS
    DDE field in word/document.xml launches a dangerous executable: \\System32\\
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://hotelruota.it/kjhuAT61 In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In 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/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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