Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 9e5f94414bcc33c4

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

155.3 KB Created: 2020-10-16 19:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 3aa0110a3f9b774fc890f44c956cedcd SHA-1: 892a67dc1d2c77b95595913734bb1753b1306ad1 SHA-256: 9e5f94414bcc33c4f9405dd2c0747ccc8c79921dbaab834a1ce8cd0205bb1f9b

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, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro execution. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common pattern for Emotet. The embedded URL, though benign, is likely a placeholder or part of a larger delivery chain. The VBA macros are designed to execute automatically upon opening the document, a typical method for downloading and executing further stages of the Emotet malware.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0
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` `d7b10db6ad3bff10dd176d31b83ada7ffa72a5d7b1b67bb513aee8ccfc4d5f3f`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15292 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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