Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · 98b82e9419554248

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

134.4 KB Created: 2020-10-14 07:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 3c692277696a6973c340f165c93d6c19 SHA-1: 430b58074593507a113a9585cb518c4554b1d457 SHA-256: 98b82e9419554248ca2022f5d19e847937353bc23d4f32d8baf1056817963624

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE VBA macros, Document_Open macro, CreateObject call, and VBA p-code auto-execution strongly indicate a malicious macro-based document. The presence of the 'Emotet' family in the ClamAV signature further supports this classification. The obfuscated document body text suggests an attempt to conceal the malicious intent and trick the user into enabling macros, which would then likely trigger the execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0
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` `826434d3a30f8115a2b858063b6ee79ded3d3145d977887f7c2b014f2947746b`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	9581 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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