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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6bd46837e705aee…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.1 KB Created: 2020-09-17 20:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 01d9dc42dbdb29a1773a68ddf8628e03 SHA-1: b7b686e4135540ef15f1a39c5693822d007f1717 SHA-256: f6bd46837e705aee39428d412f28116876f6351e1148b7ce01d5e1848b7d0061
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a malicious DOCX document containing a Document_Open VBA macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject to execute arbitrary code, as indicated by the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' heuristic. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as 'Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763054-0'. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging the auto-executing macro to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763054-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Generic-9763054-0
  • 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
620e9eb15c32ed012e3e43742d6a5833fa906ea09e2bf7ca9f4f384d7210c8d6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21992 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.