Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c464eeb2745a70…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

240.5 KB Created: 2020-10-28 10:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 68c9e544e8fb8519980bbdfbe0a60953 SHA-1: fd1b24377ec398fdd341008e6a16d93b5059ae64 SHA-256: a7c464eeb2745a70c0108df133c47695689e8205a9b36343bf6652b953700739
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate that this document contains and attempts to execute VBA macros. The presence of a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The family is identified as Emotet based on the ClamAV signature.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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
46faaf06a16ada9e49d018565258705c67fc1202bb8b7fa1b6772e3ca9589e8c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17107 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.