Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 38a7276166183fb5

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

161.8 KB Created: 2020-10-16 18:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 2a8014519054a58e4c1c3b05daa9d32b SHA-1: 070b45afaca524f55c98934f83e055f9d8d96049 SHA-256: 38a7276166183fb51e2c60c91165d139295de90105097cb4e24b077d3fa5d56f

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing, confirms that the macro is designed to run automatically and execute code. This is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using macro-enabled documents to download and execute further payloads.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0
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` `fcaa38ed96b1b218739bafc5403c2803ab83f37a0565afb297027068f0a0ee86`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15517 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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