MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a signature indicating Emotet. Heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, suggesting an attempt to execute code upon opening. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated, but the overall pattern and the Emotet detection strongly indicate it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL is benign and likely a false positive.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
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Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macro
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CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJCreateObject call
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.basb98bc6262a06d3ed5a9ef1ffbdbcd180eadae66998aa40fa38b234fae6ec34b7 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 17061 bytes |
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