Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc2ba0f2f951a40…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

134.4 KB Created: 2020-09-29 04:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 094670610b673e3d08610080d73e272b SHA-1: cc80bc44668896e1fe7f032cb0e74b212a15503d SHA-256: 5cc2ba0f2f951a4045c7a3b85e3c0c49e32c14ab752b3e3f0b3bfd09f8a67eb4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening (Document_Open). The macro utilizes CreateObject to execute obfuscated code, which is a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection also strongly suggests Emotet. The script's primary function appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload, indicated by the obfuscated code and the embedded URL, which is characteristic of Emotet's infection chain.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769095-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769095-0
  • 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.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
d04833e53843bfcf6544d888c124f488e78f247212586680bbec5bbafe93c514
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6702 bytes