Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0e135650a4ba4c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

138.9 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f2d36cb1673f7db878b6efe298fc78fa SHA-1: 243fdb35cd26b78aec13b3dfa7ea272df52a07d5 SHA-256: 6f0e135650a4ba4cbf78753cb2124b829e65f1aa0650745f0b32b49025190103
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening the document, as indicated by the Document_Open heuristic. The macro utilizes CreateObject to likely instantiate and execute malicious code, a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection further supports the Emotet family attribution. The obfuscated script and truncated document body suggest the primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
  • 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
af1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6632 bytes