Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 972c65cfa05e9f20

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

171.2 KB Created: 2021-01-05 12:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 9780d2a8093bea982eb2d1b3ffae43d5 SHA-1: e40ea51e02bf1077e8373d781a99235d6c64c882 SHA-256: 972c65cfa05e9f20d99e2a9ef7eefaa9a5a6bcdbfe731ce84af19dea721b4af2

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening the document, indicated by the 'Document_Open' heuristic. This macro utilizes 'CreateObject' to likely download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
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` `5fd199a84582bf2c4248191e49df05fe3a9d17ab4a6f639ead9a581ea6be129f`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	10799 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.