Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 28e85a8022d13e3e

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 18:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: b723bffd3d4b6b7fa028d2a20c5f0921 SHA-1: 7588128c5ae380846647b8219de31b62e0ec3fd2 SHA-256: 28e85a8022d13e3eae9c98b2befa55c01ad65cb6de39ef857d7a8f6c2153a84d

300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0, strongly suggesting it belongs to the Emotet family. Critical heuristics indicate the use of a hidden UserForm to execute a command stager, a common Emotet technique. This stager likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The presence of VBA macros and the Document_Open auto-execution further support this.

Heuristics 8

VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER

VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetIOS-9402070-0
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` `c16109e56e89ca797691e9b4375e60bba52071aacf9e64d6acc544d711f5ac66`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	5058 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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