Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61949f61ef6e9f58…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

204.6 KB Created: 2020-12-22 12:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7666e734314c799c22098dd79202476c SHA-1: 76004614d39dd1dc2082f170c58beac18ab003fa SHA-256: 61949f61ef6e9f58fd1d0faf7f1ba74d50ac13206257eb6da292ba3cac225d82
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0', indicating a known Emotet downloader variant. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that utilizes 'CreateObject' for execution. This strongly suggests the macro is intended to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
b223e36ca03f3aef1de34ece9213428b8c399a8d27f7650232938837efe41a69		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16333 bytes

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