Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 979236f4d2d99e92

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

153.8 KB Created: 2020-10-19 20:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: d5ea20f4c90df6876e394cd897318c55 SHA-1: d9f5db0b6ccfc32b2840a7af90ceb0a94c3eb152 SHA-256: 979236f4d2d99e9272c6abef5b246723ac02e7bba9dc2aee883c4c907fe4b362

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate a malicious macro downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common Emotet delivery technique. The obfuscated document body content, while not directly readable, is consistent with lures used to trick users into enabling macros. The extracted URL, though benign, is often present in such documents.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780400-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780400-0
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` `2d3ce3834af78f24fa31a527ad1e694aefe01bd9c74b26ec94954a5af657ad56`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15599 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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