Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 558c61e9709e06aa

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

241.0 KB Created: 2020-10-28 10:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: d4ec8482a0cdd196882b42731ece05a9 SHA-1: e12c811339b9a1934e32af38a332fb65b303d93f SHA-256: 558c61e9709e06aa045d7ba7933b35b9fb9c125734e3c4e8955a573a31cba52e

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro execution. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common pattern for Emotet to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while benign, is often used as a placeholder or part of the document's structure rather than a direct payload delivery mechanism in this context.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
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` `46faaf06a16ada9e49d018565258705c67fc1202bb8b7fa1b6772e3ca9589e8c`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	17107 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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