Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 682c52ea14c67adc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

176.8 KB Created: 2020-10-21 04:38:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e51c9d77c51e626d3592c02a058cf959 SHA-1: f47cada2a0c000b7e15b641a3e608b4fdc4d5c1f SHA-256: 682c52ea14c67adc0272b857956b52e3109ac7db9c329ab16ed6889c70d1ddf0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject to execute obfuscated code. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet, which often uses macros to download and execute further stages. The ClamAV detection further supports this identification.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
7f8cff52bb4ded49086d2df7b9cfebe2d016b73a3b091a757ad1794acb80249c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18885 bytes

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