Emotet Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · 3dfd559a81a5b915

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

232.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:38:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 10d35aeca1b2f02880d143e4d971de42 SHA-1: 907d869cef6613d154b0f9f9b0c4f61216e5277c SHA-256: 3dfd559a81a5b915bfcbcbe57eb9d13325efd35d5abe6bb846708bc725234c6a

300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes a hidden UserForm to execute commands. This is a common technique for Emotet to download and execute further malicious payloads. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, increasing confidence in the family attribution. The presence of a VBA macro with auto-execution and CreateObject calls strongly suggests a malicious intent to compromise the system.

Heuristics 8

VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER

VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9305648-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9305648-0
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` `12db1b0729c8b9c957819ab50f91929d7e75c8bd60e2f16f5f95486f8a5752f3`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	4182 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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