Malicious Office (OLE) / .DOCX — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61298955fe05fbbb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

185.0 KB Created: 2020-10-21 05:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 102e1752083b238c5031b36653a35754 SHA-1: ce1f159eab5c0398004632f7c700f2f0ac8d28e7 SHA-256: 61298955fe05fbbb52f413e7bc442fd6ec052ad6ae39ed2575d11f2bc6f2a83a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute obfuscated code. This indicates a dropper or downloader functionality, typical of malware like Emotet. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' further supports this. The macro's primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though the exact URL is not directly present in the provided script excerpts.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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
c2d782ff362afeab0ff3ffdb3997adeebbc3bedc56fb1ea2722e18a99469723b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20637 bytes