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

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc56c432d7ac6dbb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

86.6 KB Created: 2020-12-29 19:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 88d16bc5de27f7309ab559f7625fbe57 SHA-1: b59820c7d89578af64fb5ed32202a7d6c2abc73d SHA-256: fc56c432d7ac6dbba502bfbabdffe52de8c633673493b2b9b6277eeb50fa319a
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro designed to execute automatically. This macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for launching malicious payloads. The presence of a 'macros.bas' artifact further confirms the macro-based nature of this threat. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, suggesting its primary purpose is to deliver the malicious macro.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
3e1fbb4a2f2cb4e00d9509545ac732e1282394563ab4578045877b0464a8aa28
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8279 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.