Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 2c0e571af9551f88

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 18:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 2a6dda349ecd275ce219bb57ca5a96bf SHA-1: 8ef2bcf514a471afd2c9f5b526cc41938d448c7d SHA-256: 2c0e571af9551f882e0f962c19799154fd0e9d82e9c8876d726a11f50cbc9676

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The sample is a malicious DOCX file containing a Document_Open VBA macro. This macro utilizes CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, indicating it's designed to run automatically upon opening. The ClamAV detection and heuristic firings strongly suggest this is an Emotet variant, commonly delivered via macro-enabled documents. The macro's primary function is likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
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` `89a7392bd1c1f3fe3b1a4c5e97fc737fc9e550b299f3eb72f43817655c9c1c0c`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	16436 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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