Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 36156e8a513ab8e1

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.1 KB Created: 2020-09-18 13:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: cb8a1af2b01cce11ffe4c9de1660f2cb SHA-1: 4f35f4bc72d2d2e3d3c6564de715a953b740065a SHA-256: 36156e8a513ab8e144b478cbcdac6ed738f83e03ce174a02228593813a701692

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

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 execution. The Document_Open macro is designed to run automatically upon opening the document, leveraging CreateObject to initiate the download and execution of a secondary payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763587-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763587-0
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` `d480f4e62437f12b4fdbfa09699c3791dd8e97ee1633f946eb76ef39a2f5d3e4`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	20121 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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