MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and p-code execution, typical for obfuscated macro malware. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family, known for its downloader capabilities. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated but its structure and the presence of auto-execution routines point towards it downloading and executing a second-stage payload.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
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Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macro
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CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJCreateObject call
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.basb6798bb5311b4f2b692b304112e80c31df30b22e53307915d8ecb36c818b404c |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 18585 bytes |
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