Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0696c08b3e38944c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.3 KB Created: 2020-09-29 13:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9733d91071affb2737232c7a0ba9adaf SHA-1: 1c63e5fb33dcefa5d242f5525626d9bf6099b69e SHA-256: 0696c08b3e38944c68c4e41b8589256b865c69f40b1dd4fd6016b27474f54488
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection confirms this, identifying it as Emotet. The obfuscated VBA code within the 'macros.bas' script is designed to execute, likely to download and run a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
3466a25e0ec8edf0a3d6ff61e66e8183246c716be04ca7cccaa39032367b5dbf		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10303 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.