Win.Trojan.Sam-1 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faa36a63fbdec2e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

26.5 KB Created: 1997-02-25 19:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 26799f968a9d84476492a29b9f6117f6 SHA-1: b6c0f1722c191da1bacbaf143c94bf63a3d41316 SHA-256: faa36a63fbdec2e62c37c15e727283da98a12a9163fd5fdc7c6b5b3670ee2a2b
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Sam-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as a legacy WordBasic macro-virus by heuristics, specifically noting the marker 'TOOLSMACRO'. ClamAV also detects it as Win.Trojan.Sam-1. The presence of legacy macro virus markers indicates a high likelihood of malicious macro execution, a common technique for older malware.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Sam-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Sam-1
  • 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.