Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bce545acd6f3745…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.5 KB Created: 2020-10-26 17:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8ca7f4047dd9ba5a391a120d4b8fcad4 SHA-1: 4754f7a9c67b82a5737369bdc63d43f79f59a810 SHA-256: 0bce545acd6f37453246cb2ce9c6ef9e85b7c6c02676fed1a2bfd42934be9c03
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly identifies it as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0', and the presence of CreateObject calls within the VBA code suggests the execution of a second-stage payload. The macro's obfuscated nature and the use of 'CreateObject' point towards downloading and running external code.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0
  • 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
fd86ec2eb619814e7cd62b76d9f6553c2ce07800d98173938893210dd89c469b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15663 bytes

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