Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0427b223aa7c526…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 382b7119af0e373f639ff3bde49eb291 SHA-1: 022c123e313539749feef925b56e58d99c3b6396 SHA-256: a0427b223aa7c526dd3cebfcc4d97cc8a6e9d272e790a314a0ebeda94ad3f183
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0. Static analysis reveals the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating an auto-execution mechanism. This suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact further supports this. The Emotet family is known for its downloader capabilities.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
439e57830647c2aa4289de5e25d2759440b9e1601599acc03def2897db1f3da9		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20114 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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