Malicious Office (OOXML) — malware analysis report

Heuristics 8

• VBA project inside OOXML medium 4 related findings OOXML_VBA
  Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present
• Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
  Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  Matched line in script

      Set Osca1l = CreateObject(nfb7942o(Chr(91) & "" & "_" & "o" & "~" & "e" & "" & Chr(124) & "" & Chr(120) _

• CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
  CreateObject call
  Matched line in script

      Set Osca1l = CreateObject(nfb7942o(Chr(91) & "" & "_" & "o" & "~" & "e" & "" & Chr(124) & "" & Chr(120) _

• 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()

• Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
  Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
• External hyperlinks (3) low OOXML_EXTERNAL_HYPERLINKS
  Document contains 3 external hyperlinks — clickable URLs are stored as external relationships. First target: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
• 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)

  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006In document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/inkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3dIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationshipsIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/mathIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawingIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/mainIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cidIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symexIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroupIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInkIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordmlIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShapeIn document text (OOXML body / shared strings)
  • https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/Document hyperlink
  • https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.htmlDocument hyperlink
  • https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.htmlDocument hyperlink

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