Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e0ab20f24e293d5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

170.3 KB Created: 2020-09-16 21:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1e5504fbcb51356dea58a7f203f3ff9f SHA-1: 80ed37c6945f7024b49bd3e2228adc5295a65e7c SHA-256: 5e0ab20f24e293d53eea6004bcdae7e97001bae4ca2c13f93f8d68196b6fc16c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to likely download and execute a secondary payload. ClamAV detection also strongly suggests Emotet. The embedded URL is benign, but the macro's behavior is highly indicative of malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762248-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762248-0
  • 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
399b09c8d74ca70c14382a3c60b3f313640ed0e229ce8a9c8a5d7036140d7260		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19085 bytes

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