Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c1ef2ca10f5b418…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

171.5 KB Created: 2020-10-21 13:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7fc5a428d64a85b3219390600b44a6ff SHA-1: 98c70123dc28bb29c2dcb55a8a3bc77a58d82a61 SHA-256: 6c1ef2ca10f5b418d2cd8881b318fbc4752f43ca440cc26ece33aa38071c74b5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0', indicating a known Emotet variant. The presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, strongly suggests an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The obfuscated VBA code further supports this, as it is a common tactic for Emotet to hide its malicious activities.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0
  • 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
113d36c64715b3a3694b52821b832bd3a24df7013a1eebeaaceb4571875cbc4c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 23319 bytes

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