Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 8d475f0afd3041e1

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

167.9 KB Created: 2020-10-20 13:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: c98cca12f42cdfafdc84f44805dcaf5b SHA-1: cdc686a30f2d04a1423e936969e0114f525c118d SHA-256: 8d475f0afd3041e1209765768042961e075a889b563f9e19bd8344a5503349ef

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0' directly attributes this file to the Emotet family, which is known for its downloader capabilities. The document body content appears to be obfuscated or encoded, typical of lures used by Emotet to mask its malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0
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` `db983f63a3f14ba21ce878505faeebf248407a72c9ac689ac190379ed7abf96d`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	17571 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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