Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 685e3e4ea0851f19…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

101.4 KB Created: 2020-09-29 17:52:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f9a06195cce029f977feaea9a7c0d113 SHA-1: 22d5ce43b6f463698a0793a96bb8b5faf05eb55f SHA-256: 685e3e4ea0851f195ade4ba3673387a5c69eb1633d3daae4666e5aad9dabaf7e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The file contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet. The VBA code is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to deobfuscate and execute a payload, likely a downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls strongly indicates malicious intent to execute code upon opening the document.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769356-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769356-0
  • 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
77f0fc2bd0d5c985be4d4cb3501afb191ffadc98be204ef2c40c091585c5d90a		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10395 bytes

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