Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 46a59f3fe0efcffc

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

125.4 KB Created: 2020-09-30 20:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 2e18fe7c0f93a8fdc6335bfd7924df2a SHA-1: d316300fd211e1b33967848275fe56427763fc74 SHA-256: 46a59f3fe0efcffcdfcd2c366c3cda5205ab4f7c79e6c11c1bac4ea7247906d5

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, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in 'macros.bas' and the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing suggest the macro is designed to run automatically upon opening the document. This is characteristic of Emotet, which often uses macro-based execution to download and install further malware.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769866-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769866-1
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` `7cb9b8e5dcd6093fc36997f1ddba9977c3343a23efe112843f21e09b69e64d3a`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	10245 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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