Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 22e968ba677ba56d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

160.6 KB Created: 2020-09-24 14:59:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 9a466341c501836ae95e18aba801a717 SHA-1: 90e76e7f8a081acfe57da789ddd6685b8b6b2492 SHA-256: 22e968ba677ba56dd1d0fa54404737fabfd551950e007c6b526c683cb920d99d

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate that this document contains a malicious VBA macro designed to execute code. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject strongly suggests it's attempting to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature specifically names this as Emotet. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, but the VBA macro itself is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765780-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765780-0
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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` `478e525c35da71173721eac25da86734da83f0768f80b277d373c9cc7716a5ba`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	27607 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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