Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb668ee40f1c345…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.7 KB Created: 2020-09-16 12:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6d3a8fe160e75c09fa3211293d0809dd SHA-1: 79dfb26351b4d8570b76baa837c09c5ee8a3f144 SHA-256: 6cb668ee40f1c345de4b204de15595afe6af4349b9d35d16b9c5ab4f59c895e5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject. This is a common technique for Emotet to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, further supporting this classification. The macro's obfuscated nature and reliance on executing external code indicate a high likelihood of it acting as a downloader.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0
  • 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
49b4ebbf014fb7982286797412148a9d5a2325fbd8b23512b4e2381b987c3c86		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21867 bytes

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