Malicious Office (OLE) — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac79036c735735a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

6.5 KB First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 6164e6bf8a5ced93efbec1bebef4d46b SHA-1: 1b3bdc37b5111f97b06d9bf9dc1d3df570a2823c SHA-256: fac79036c735735afb1775c07fea7aa809c390ed51cb865a6e270ca239388586
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file exhibits characteristics of a legacy macro virus, specifically identified by 'RSN MACRO VIRUS' markers and ClamAV detection as Win.Trojan.Superstitious-1. The presence of 'AutoOpen' suggests an attempt to automatically execute malicious code upon opening the document. While no specific payload URLs or scripts were extracted, the file's structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate it functions as a downloader or initial execution vector for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 2

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