Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7523118cf6f89d5d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

163.6 KB Created: 2020-10-01 15:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 217e667a4785a3bc064f40ed1ceb0f5c SHA-1: c5b3b79ffb8ccd471515aa8dce5c52c78968ea24 SHA-256: 7523118cf6f89d5d76d181f0968891967eacde22e4d478d8be2c498b3f22489d
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 sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-exec macro that utilizes CreateObject. This is a common pattern for Emotet, which typically downloads and executes a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection ID further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9770197-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9770197-0
  • 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
34626713db5720b3147c8823fb8dfd0fe34a12fce4df5a0aa65f24e3eab9d078		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10368 bytes

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