MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
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' and 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' heuristics. The macro uses 'CreateObject' to instantiate objects and executes obfuscated code, which is a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection also explicitly names Emotet. The macro appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
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Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPENDocument_Open macro
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CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJCreateObject call
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VBA p-code auto-exec with execution tokens high OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXECCompiled 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.
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VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROSDocument contains VBA macro code
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
macros.basaf1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 6632 bytes |
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