Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · 354f42e3a360351c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

138.1 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 770c42dd699fc9c635788e94536b8c3f SHA-1: 171f12ce0d88ff7e0d5e0b3e2299d232271e6a32 SHA-256: 354f42e3a360351ce3a12b152b9b619b2dda611a1bd404d2e54a8e0f2249f988

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro activity. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common pattern for Emotet to download and execute a second-stage payload. The file was detected as 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0' by ClamAV, further supporting the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
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` `af1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	6632 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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