Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6119c776a665ceea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

202.2 KB Created: 2020-09-25 06:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 10a5c7d52bd0f891923c81e6d1746c92 SHA-1: 818146ca8f185ebd60d21b2b21d47bb8e5321fa0 SHA-256: 6119c776a665ceeae14b6c41f368a0c8fc38c84de92a8908012785d47cba3585
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. ClamAV identifies this as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1. The macro appears to be obfuscated, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
  • 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
d802c65eb8f9df036cf46e9408744e30c5d95dae54b582b9f65ecb84ecb28fa8
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25261 bytes