Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · a2ee356497a3a9d4

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

159.4 KB Created: 2020-09-15 21:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 644a80c3441380d2d61da0d87cb8c4d0 SHA-1: 4937693969b2685db5a63d5a7905496506424066 SHA-256: a2ee356497a3a9d4d7a1f53bd763a0badb4f4fd850c2ba0058d2021b977587ec

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 heuristic and high-severity OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firings indicate the presence of malicious VBA macros. The Document_Open macro, combined with CreateObject calls, suggests the execution of code upon opening the document. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The macros are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762290-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762290-0
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` `48aeeefcb5ab39bdc7a9844f7217739e7dc8c9cb3f8a901965d3ff17ec851125`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	25311 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.