Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dcbc3ca0de0a87f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

212.3 KB Created: 2020-10-16 06:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5a9749acd7de5f6f42481b105c7e89fa SHA-1: 1d6a6135196f20d8740e3f8bbd543b782a0136e9 SHA-256: 5dcbc3ca0de0a87ff5d782320c293502637d846e86c909bf7540a4b25924ef04
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1137.005 DLL Search Order Hijacking

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to instantiate a COM object for further malicious actions, likely downloading and executing a payload. The ClamAV detection name also strongly suggests Emotet.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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
3863408a8bdeee0ec9a7fd53b63559adf9564fc8373ad4e3bb83f95fe3393045		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15324 bytes

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