Logan — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe51fd4c0a680a85…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

184.5 KB Created: 2020-10-22 06:54:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0a5a83f5e913695c2b16ef18f5e8498a SHA-1: c4887d2e18a517666ca9b78e8e0eb73befa2d7f9 SHA-256: fe51fd4c0a680a852cd8d8b37f3edd5ab6f86cfa69f7ad9df4dc7cd82301a29a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Logan · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0' strongly suggests the Logan family. The macro's use of CreateObject indicates it likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, aligning with the downloader functionality typical of the Logan family. The obfuscated document body text does not provide further context on the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Logan-9781905-0
  • 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
9979b97c308d841b566985c48e8a84b999556c3e27641c5af6c36c44f3b0664e
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18953 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.