Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 4b536ae01569d815

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

252.2 KB Created: 2020-09-17 19:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 678d62c9b0d3b8365b21dec366f8a10e SHA-1: b1cf5fd4d5d7f42204c3842497781794a595b886 SHA-256: 4b536ae01569d815968afe883cf1029c39d9e7b4fcd925d98b3bfcf28723a201

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 named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior. The benign URL listed is likely a red herring or part of the document's structure rather than a malicious IOC.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
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` `f3e5512d27b8b9bc41f3042e7c20b3a4762b4069585ccb21c6a950e8fd05377a`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	21986 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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