Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70450709057b6562…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

161.4 KB Created: 2020-12-30 18:46:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2022-06-19
MD5: eee99e6d8ade9463dd206dfbad3485ea SHA-1: 204f560829a6d70f93ef6ce396d74f61423c13d7 SHA-256: 70450709057b656283751c362a7b72b9b0232ddd86f8482016ee85947392e27c
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, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name also explicitly identifies it as an Emotet downloader.

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
6962f810c28eb243c8b24e2b0d8e4e86ece95d5eee626a83df33cd06a6b33dfe		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6716 bytes

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