Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 9b09ea8a8e81f20d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

210.5 KB Created: 2020-10-16 06:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: bb3b8cc18e976b044abe078f2ced73ca SHA-1: 66c47da12988d057c879731b495c408ba8675009 SHA-256: 9b09ea8a8e81f20dae59ea433945d803d0af60b3a74ccf6c04bf1a17e5abaec3

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 an auto-executing Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of the 'Emotet' family in the ClamAV signature further supports this classification. The macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic.

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` `3863408a8bdeee0ec9a7fd53b63559adf9564fc8373ad4e3bb83f95fe3393045`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15324 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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