Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 061f4c387df2a0e3

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.6 KB Created: 2020-07-29 18:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 9c00d588f7b6a159c855b93627492516 SHA-1: fa1ed3fb2e4e6f7d8747584b8a1969e85daa4909 SHA-256: 061f4c387df2a0e388b644d647379077b84ea8a2a52eec31d3e2f95b0984be9f

262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0', indicating a known Emotet variant. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro and a 'UserForm hidden-property command stager'. This stager is designed to execute obfuscated code, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of a Document_Open macro and the command stager strongly suggests an attempt to exploit the user opening the document, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Heuristics 7

VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER

VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0
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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `c16109e56e89ca797691e9b4375e60bba52071aacf9e64d6acc544d711f5ac66`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	5058 bytes

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