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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f866bfe66ec6e3cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

182.0 KB Created: 2020-10-22 12:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 39663eb6c6be8f7bd5a3a5060fb5d679 SHA-1: 090976500ed85637664a16aa82672467d271c7f2 SHA-256: f866bfe66ec6e3cc8be75c57bc75b4ee56e8b16ed1804ad9ac89337a3548fd71
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro within the document, as confirmed by the 'macros.bas' artifact, strongly suggests that the document's primary function is to execute this macro. The macro is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • 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
312ef617e63493e61b3bcd46b3231fa9b7aec5a75b005f32edf123ee68ffccb7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18806 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.