Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ff769ddd838638…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

191.4 KB Created: 2020-09-21 14:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 03cfe12259ce268154c3c10cf49dca76 SHA-1: 2b46fb5e528a062781f396a65766e2d9c1b3bffd SHA-256: 06ff769ddd838638dd933879a8a930aeacbcae74bf6df79aa7c9899d90222eaa
242 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 contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The presence of CreateObject and GetObject calls further indicates malicious scripting activity. ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, and the overall structure suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765432-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765432-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
5f8ddf3f75befd9059f3326eb9e354f14c2179c2257f61708817109610baf98e		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19074 bytes

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