Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61cf4ff84de3e35d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.6 KB Created: 2020-10-16 19:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 54a9d2fd714ffe1e67e71c117a2311a4 SHA-1: 9920f6fbcb9991cd023eba0052bd2155a62c50a9 SHA-256: 61cf4ff84de3e35dd24e8df00464aa832912b8c378cbffc5da91abc576c809fd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The VBA script appears to be obfuscated but the presence of CreateObject and the overall structure strongly suggest it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL is benign and not considered an IOC.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0
  • 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
d7b10db6ad3bff10dd176d31b83ada7ffa72a5d7b1b67bb513aee8ccfc4d5f3f		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15292 bytes

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