Phardera — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcb6c218f6dc62d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

9.0 KB Created: 1997-04-10 15:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 6.0 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 14e88520ade571a62fdacd7897bfe239 SHA-1: 5a9e26b9ff26d96838a61b885751239963f5f749 SHA-256: fcb6c218f6dc62d13e837809a421e104329d5ee3e8b49147232ad9161a0d7506
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Phardera · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample exhibits characteristics of a legacy WordBasic macro virus, specifically mentioning 'ToolsMacro' and 'InfectGlobal' within its document body. The ClamAV detection explicitly identifies it as 'Doc.Trojan.Phardera-1', strongly indicating the Phardera family. The presence of 'C:\PHARDERA.DOC' suggests a potential dropped file or a reference to the malware's origin.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Phardera-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Phardera-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.