Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f705df2d18cea58b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

57.5 KB Created: 2000-11-28 02:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 8.0
MD5: 0b21ce0eab819315430e3787943747dc SHA-1: b1606a701d93359965caa35e6c692e3bbe516332 SHA-256: f705df2d18cea58b6e6a01572aea6a120e992617087f1e4e027a895396ffeda3
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Trojan.Panther-2'. Static analysis detected a high-severity 'OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN' heuristic, indicating the presence of a Document_Open macro. This macro is likely responsible for executing malicious actions, such as downloading and running a second-stage payload, as is common with this type of malware. No specific family could be confidently identified.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
0db225a72ea25d4b5ef5c1842bd4724f42434307e12cdd937eb7ac7d927bc78d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 4725 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Panther-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely