Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b78517ffcb6e16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

168.0 KB Created: 2020-10-26 10:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5ddcf19962037126a7f75c32d0ca9df2 SHA-1: 7c390e330efdf995c76672befe46490cdfb96e4d SHA-256: 76b78517ffcb6e161468bc8c99717254f8dde7a11891b7127bc5f9371844352d
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious Office document containing a VBA macro that executes upon opening. The macro utilizes CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, strongly indicating it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet, a known downloader family.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9783962-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9783962-0
  • 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
73da4e56546636c0246d24a128ee097e3f12e124f4b51048532455144fb1d70c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15915 bytes

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