Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c1909a7c6468844…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

136.2 KB Created: 2020-01-24 06:31:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: a6e5da22a236c3742ba3ec1f1b383834 SHA-1: d7da10ea7e3bfcf59f0c63ded4b87914263692fb SHA-256: 3c1909a7c6468844b58967307b5f06237d78fb69b9296e407cf9ea0079701bc1
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7561692-0, indicating it is likely an Emotet downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro and GetObject calls strongly suggests that the VBA code within the document is designed to execute automatically upon opening. This macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from a remote source, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7561692-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7561692-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
398e422a1db848f9c23a420430c352af1bd766a5458509b8abb6933edd1e03da		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 15700 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
f7291e9d9c23592bfd082c8c473dd6dd88f28033651519a6b1cc040fbc878604		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 115200 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7561692-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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