Win.Trojan.Emperor-3 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6b5398fe855e534…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

15.5 KB Created: 1997-05-16 11:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 96d6d06fc0401bd9e523ca4f12c5c2d0 SHA-1: f85450c223252598b7fc4d533e308cadf2f4f13c SHA-256: f6b5398fe855e534fed33440d068b56be49a5cbde1177db883adce38904c37a3
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Emperor-3 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically identified by the 'TOOLSMACRO' marker and the presence of 'AUTOOPEN' and 'VIRUSMESSAGE' functions. ClamAV detection confirms this as Win.Trojan.Emperor-3, indicating a malicious intent to execute embedded code.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Emperor-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Emperor-3
  • Legacy WordBasic macro-virus markers high OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_MACRO_VIRUS
    OLE Word document contains legacy WordBasic auto-execution macro markers such as AutoOpen plus ToolsMacro/MacroFile/fileMacro/globMacro or named historical macro-virus strings. These old Word 6/95 macro forms are not exposed as a modern VBA project, so normal VBA source extraction can miss them.