Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1356c113c2e17f52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

159.2 KB Created: 2020-09-17 04:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3213d595a295c566f38dafb8871fbd70 SHA-1: 13e4acded9c7e7962d140fddf3c9971712f74eaf SHA-256: 1356c113c2e17f52077c000bfac7f6eeeb2aaa7fb1f9e3650fdd9d72fe79eadb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate or Obfuscate Malicious Files or Information

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762517-0', strongly indicating the Emotet family. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject is a common Emotet technique for executing malicious code. The macro likely attempts to deobfuscate and download a secondary payload, as suggested by the heuristic firings and the nature of Emotet's downloader functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762517-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762517-0
  • 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
991adc1ef45638c65bfb92a710fcbce350fe87d4c8d6f02dc16d9130cc12b6e6		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20616 bytes

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