MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a specific detection name indicating Emotet. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, suggesting an attempt to execute code upon opening. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated but contains calls that likely facilitate the execution of a secondary payload, a common Emotet behavior. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted as present.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
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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.bas5c8508b4422f9cf9f0517311e463bebb8a10b40538c4b01e1d12399253dacfe3 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 16608 bytes |
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