Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60e4646ea5fbe72e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

186.6 KB Created: 2020-10-30 04:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0fcef89b6be64c9a176f7e2ddbe5f530 SHA-1: 9344c8fb82963fecc0769d925c65cfd56461d6af SHA-256: 60e4646ea5fbe72e1daf6f3d015b37205898569b303dcfc791e0d02a754c9bf1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection name also explicitly points to Emotet. The macros likely download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the CreateObject heuristic and the presence of obfuscated code.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0
  • 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
f7e154fbc1687723523f4f201e3a1591c84897657fe14056a01af3060d347cbe		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17509 bytes

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