Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 46d74826799bc3be

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

204.6 KB Created: 2020-12-22 12:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: c744417feb58a4a25a5f548b8f6634f4 SHA-1: be9edf7064063f9c29fd884d1e3ea47042d930f5 SHA-256: 46d74826799bc3bea6197713c8b199ed1faed920028c4d3acc7cbcc186276b6f

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of a VBA macro in macros.bas, coupled with the detection of an embedded URL, suggests the document's primary purpose is to execute a secondary payload. The obfuscated document body content further supports this, as it likely contains encoded commands or data for the macro to process.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
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` `b223e36ca03f3aef1de34ece9213428b8c399a8d27f7650232938837efe41a69`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	16333 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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