MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. ClamAV detection confirms it as Emotet. The VBA script is heavily obfuscated but its structure and the presence of CreateObject indicate it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL is benign, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest malicious intent.
Heuristics 6
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ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
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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.bas130bc91dd8b5ad391a87daabf287b6e2ceed1d78136a29ff57bedf25aa736586 |
vba-macro | oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) | 18991 bytes |
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