Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 2aeae0b7bc8a97f6

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

131.5 KB Created: 2020-09-28 15:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: e231c57d8eb1820274b441fe119acc8d SHA-1: 1d4c6125f30bf46d2d5547cdc1ec8f6ed9117e0a SHA-256: 2aeae0b7bc8a97f69ef898b2f87c7e09076be22e107a565667e38a4d58495e97

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV heuristic and high-severity OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firings indicate the presence of a malicious VBA macro designed to execute automatically upon opening the document. This macro is highly indicative of Emotet, a known malware family. The macro's likely intent is to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Emotet infections.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768661-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768661-0
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` `2ce77a90790088f293710a707301ae69bfebe17386d7804fba58a5e382e47c64`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	6657 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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