Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06f0f241e0f9d72b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

131.6 KB Created: 2020-09-30 05:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cb1d36d2b18fa4fde6c7be3c9ea6a19b SHA-1: bb49de3716137d2e94776db160537867af8248d0 SHA-256: 06f0f241e0f9d72b7bfa912752c572cef951ebe5403388f20bc330e2dbda3c5c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a "Document_Open" macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to instantiate objects, indicating an attempt to download and execute further malicious code. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769541-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769541-0
  • 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
b2b495189d2eb2b89dce9719098105d933c1125fa9413aec5a7ff49e851b8844		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10579 bytes

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