Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1789852f3ddb4d21…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

189.0 KB Created: 2020-10-21 20:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 95d681137234734b71d6414dc52c8f2a SHA-1: b04ffff620d4e3819ba31c25d0f9c63e2b25c5fd SHA-256: 1789852f3ddb4d213c5808af892d7c5d8585b400ed67fa5e0ce8e35f4fc293e2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' strongly suggests this is an Emotet variant designed to drop additional malware. The obfuscated VBA script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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
de68eb219c86c839b194b174abd2b170f818ab76547e269289797596310c601e		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 23214 bytes

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