Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ffa0bd0d65f219d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

154.1 KB Created: 2020-12-28 15:43:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a3697afa6abb7519475d1f68b3ca08b8 SHA-1: dc80dce20fb015cab3c96f1d086a018141d1fdb2 SHA-256: 6ffa0bd0d65f219d7aba9e87f2b0f65f9b4d7666f865cef6e5bdafcae28f7881
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating it's designed to execute code. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' strongly suggests Emotet family and downloader functionality. The macro attempts to read from local file paths, likely to retrieve or assemble a payload, and the obfuscated nature of the script further supports this. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests a common Emotet tactic of instructing users to open password-protected archives.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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
a004a96685dc375590aeec65acf06fce9e74ef2bbe0aa7a48bc315f9645e3700		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6009 bytes

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