Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · fc15f958384227e0

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

36.5 KB Created: 2021-05-12 08:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 55fc048da179b62b3bb1ba86120ed35d SHA-1: 55b2f166b64ff820287bf7dd27ee6249df73cbc2 SHA-256: fc15f958384227e0df809fe1f0e043c2c596d88d0de5b6c799799529626a414c

308 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains a VBA macro with an AutoOpen function, which is a common technique for initial execution. Critical heuristics indicate the use of Shell() calls and character-shift decoding to execute commands, strongly suggesting the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of VBA p-code auto-execution further supports this. No specific family could be identified, but the execution method is clear.

Heuristics 9

Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL

Shell() call in VBA
VBA character-shift decoded Shell command critical OLE_VBA_ASC_CHR_SHIFT_SHELL

VBA auto-exec macro stores an encoded command string, decodes it with a Mid/Asc/Chr character-shift loop, and passes the recovered text to Shell. This is a high-confidence command stager.
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.
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
Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON

Environ() call (env variable access)
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `e73c7c52aaa30e5130ed05add39be9bfa218c4a0ee38858f1157dfe87b1ac531`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	5546 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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