Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 5a23da52f9de6700

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.9 KB Created: 2020-10-02 08:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 78142b24591aa0aceb28238e8939b447 SHA-1: cb40934321fe680140d95ad04cfe9ec0f7c90fea SHA-256: 5a23da52f9de67003c66b7ae98caa015cc7b165b8eb438de43629a1f0aba7a5a

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_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate that this document contains a Document_Open macro designed to execute obfuscated VBA code. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet, which often uses such macros to download and execute further malicious payloads. The presence of VBA Chr string obfuscation further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
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` `7051a023ff8c92545e9437031d326fa9393a821a4be28f0566a57a8f3610dd93`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	10600 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 53 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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