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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f464ed4cae1eb3e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.1 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6a2855852c1cb9a1e29c4838abe64013 SHA-1: d6d32464c4a5473541f95b7792af396d41364dbd SHA-256: f464ed4cae1eb3e3eacb5bd81cf88686ad8d321e7d77d91e397524b3a907b47d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in macros.bas, combined with the auto-execution firing, strongly suggests the document is designed to run arbitrary code. This code likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, as is common with macro-based malware. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide further clues.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Generic-9769001-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Generic-9769001-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject 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.
  • 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 macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
fe19635e7383e285d173bce1f5bbd9867258f7974e3830e10aecb187a337391c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6691 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.