Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6531b0ec21c07726…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

180.5 KB Created: 2020-10-21 10:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5fcee3c3006bbe878d8b84a9f3ad113c SHA-1: 750ea794cb4d631c3f146640adc725688c6e0799 SHA-256: 6531b0ec21c07726a5ffd07358273a78cff9d8df4475f1bf34e27d1b8214dd63
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' strongly suggests a dropper family, likely Emotet, designed to download and execute further malicious content. The obfuscated VBA code further supports this, indicating an attempt to evade detection.

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
2d652a5f62c7cd7db265ab6f01298582724932c4485a1fde21ad075960ba4c72		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20722 bytes

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