Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74062d2800c0daf1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

177.3 KB Created: 2020-10-20 22:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c3f5e10662edbe9adf4a9d791353aa06 SHA-1: a17c3c48cf511fc10b9356c73a21f0307f25079b SHA-256: 74062d2800c0daf15d47d761483d2279e98ec058f5999f708bef73eee0c514ca
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0', and contains VBA macros. Specifically, the 'Document_Open' macro is present and uses 'CreateObject', indicating it's designed to execute code upon opening. This strongly suggests the document is a malicious attachment intended to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Emotet.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
130bc91dd8b5ad391a87daabf287b6e2ceed1d78136a29ff57bedf25aa736586		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18991 bytes

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