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Analyzing A Malicious Document Cleaned By Anti-Virus

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@futex90 shared a sample with me detected by many anti-virus programs on VirusTotal but, according to oledump.py, without VBA macros:

I’ve seen this once before: this is a malicious document that has been cleaned by an anti-virus program. The macros have been disabled by orphaning the streams containing macros, just like when a file is deleted from a filesystem, it’s the index that is deleted but not the content. FYI: olevba will find macros.

Using the raw option, it’s possible to extract the macros:

I was able to find back the original malicious document: f52ea8f238e57e49bfae304bd656ad98 (this sample was analyzed by Talos).

The anti-virus that cleaned this file, just changed 13 bytes in total to orphan the macro streams and change the storage names:

This can be clearly seen using oledir:

 


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