Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 44b69ab822ea1d2c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

212.0 KB Created: 2020-12-22 18:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 5fca115a5cb63c2c66c91a181c05d511 SHA-1: 6998689ac77f51dd3c124e712764b06fe670af9d SHA-256: 44b69ab822ea1d2cea11bde2cbf85cb033e753dcc8b5e30dc49cb042d3310aad

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 VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a downloader. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family, which is known for its downloader capabilities. The obfuscated document body text does not provide further context on the lure, but the technical indicators are clear.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
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` `8962e4bb9060366f196bbaa9086a3c9775784f792d9952a2d2a973cddd73b89c`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15531 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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