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Nowadays, when you analyze a Word document with VBA macros, and you find BASE64 strings, 99/100 it's PowerShell malware. A reader submitted a malware sample, and her/his analysis, asking for some shortcuts/quick tips. Taking a quick look at the sample with oledump.py gives me this output:
First, it's clear that this Word document contains VBA macros (M/m indicators). And when I see streams that hint to forms and/or objects (stream 17 to 25), I take a closer look, because often the real payload is hidden there. First I focus on the largest stream of these streams: stream 20 in this case.
And indeed, I see a long string that looks like BASE64 encoded UNICODE. Most likely a PowerShell script. I have a couple of options to extract this string. Like using option -S to extract strings:
Or piping this into base64dump.py:
That can also do the decoding:
You can find the reader's analysis here. Didier Stevens |
DidierStevens 577 Posts ISC Handler May 28th 2019 |
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May 28th 2019 2 years ago |
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