Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 82f568f61de9734c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

190.3 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: aa568aa54d01812a104159a18d8dbf3d SHA-1: b0b424418e0b3e3a22de5a349113ba80a6c731ce SHA-256: 82f568f61de9734c8e33acfb3b6f83db73cfa15b32d02ec8d126a8ce89fc054b

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. Critical heuristics indicate the presence of a VBA macro within the 'Document_Open' subroutine, which is designed to execute code upon opening the document. This macro uses 'CreateObject' to likely download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique. No specific URLs or other IOCs were extracted beyond the ClamAV signature.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `439e57830647c2aa4289de5e25d2759440b9e1601599acc03def2897db1f3da9`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	20114 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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