Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bddc1611da88181…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.3 KB Created: 2020-10-20 12:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 59221960bbdac9b9078f546e171e3720 SHA-1: 777a2bafc69a3c57cf0371012626be02b7209315 SHA-256: 6bddc1611da881817b34a7b39326c7a591ff84dad63af3f5865ef4a3a8d189c8
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 a downloader or droppper functionality. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The macro's obfuscated nature and use of CreateObject suggest it attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0
  • 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
a791bb7ba5242dbbc595d3114d3368d96d9feda91ba232c650f7097f210ce92c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17778 bytes

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