Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7188846dfd580ff0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

182.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 15:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6f39a5b0628ce1a9d81c75abccc24361 SHA-1: 6f4d54c743143601b1f9605cc8632ec69be8df00 SHA-256: 7188846dfd580ff0556d07f492f0e53ea9b6d632f54f7749b2d1ce34cdf0ac48
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The file contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to execute obfuscated code, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0
  • 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
041f40187eb07e2256edf903ca2aa818eaff7dc6fcfd4bf44314c9f8902df953		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16848 bytes

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