Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018067bf19838287…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

163.0 KB Created: 2020-09-25 11:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 4a79e78ce47ea078c91d1e869e349302 SHA-1: 70c5ff1cb3032bbbc85b1548199609aba002a9ab SHA-256: 018067bf198382877c4b21006840178202d28ca1cef4c8faae500a82dc6672f8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing a VBA macro that executes upon opening, as indicated by the 'Document_open' and 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' heuristics. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1', strongly suggesting Emotet family. The macro's obfuscated code likely aims to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
  • 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.
  • 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
426aca538f654441d66e245a00bfc928dacf37832bbf946df52799fa3650ecb1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 24489 bytes