MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The file is a malicious OLE document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject to execute obfuscated code. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet, which often uses such macros to download and execute further stages. The ClamAV detection further supports this classification.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
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Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macro
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CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJCreateObject call
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.basaf1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 6632 bytes |
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