Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69aab82e57e21f76…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

148.3 KB Created: 2020-09-28 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 2b91a0f661a31dce43e5f76fca71110c SHA-1: 0c622d0aa293ee1bcf4c515609c0d738c1af4d15 SHA-256: 69aab82e57e21f76a74e77351c9e716361e4ed669c1545e0a2676cd7f80b3352
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection confirms this, identifying it as Emotet. The macro appears to be heavily obfuscated, but its execution path suggests it's designed to download and run a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The presence of VBA macros and the Document_Open auto-execution point to a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768663-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768663-0
  • 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
52573b116f951816e527b23fd5cfdfc578caca117ddeb459f950d0953f709442		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6643 bytes

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