Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 4943c3503cede95a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

221.4 KB Created: 2020-09-18 06:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 3e0ebd1f94f9cc39004a478f4fc9b5a8 SHA-1: 9b0d4a52ddf44b457384c2a50378625c00cbd8db SHA-256: 4943c3503cede95a329c908942aa9f465a135fa27dfbe0c2a228bcca9d3621b2

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious dropper. The presence of a 'macros.bas' file and the detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0' point towards the Emotet family. The Document_Open macro likely initiates the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0
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` `88c8a6d475859011dad3993e76e09a2a592ce706e1bde139ef1cfc941be7102d`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	20707 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.