Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · 85404d4a489d199d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

267.9 KB Created: 2020-02-06 14:03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 42f72c3644fce5f39db7c1886f4e252c SHA-1: 9be0755ca7c9530f8b898554d504fef5a0ca60b4 SHA-256: 85404d4a489d199d3055637e3e11f3d81b783d8ba7872bae892dded74dd0edd1

300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro designed to execute automatically. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and a hidden UserForm command stager, typical of Emotet's initial infection vector. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet. The macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, which is a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 8

VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER

VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-7580127-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-7580127-0
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` `a044ea244c7c987987cbeb4aff5922860dded5c2dc0fca58760f40865acd9a7c`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	37872 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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