Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ed5539e92f43fcd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

183.7 KB Created: 2020-12-23 07:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 452ad0fff002c42bfc21359e631e2379 SHA-1: f7fee6e9875c942214bff5d9c61d7a88df35808b SHA-256: 6ed5539e92f43fcde23dc6343c4f41a93050576180fad637adc5014a49ed38aa
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening. ClamAV detection identifies it as 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0', strongly suggesting Emotet family and a downloader function. The macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
d5578521430d19d3e1a741e6facd5db8ed236e25c6fc3d692889ddd7a6d225bf		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8783 bytes

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