Emotet Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · 0ab272f979fa9aed

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

148.7 KB Created: 2020-10-15 16:33:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: ba108f7535d6c283512cc136c4fd7c7d SHA-1: 6d80f7fb90a330d1c478fa68b97b8e38bd5bb792 SHA-256: 0ab272f979fa9aed2035beb2f578c7dd1b689f64452457def9e7aca2d1c91a3a

202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro. The macro utilizes CreateObject and is triggered by the Document_Open event, indicating an attempt to execute a payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet, a known downloader family.

Heuristics 6

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0
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` `73784b5943cf314d0c94351f697d020542e983828c792237442b7715b42f981c`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	12871 bytes

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