Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · a886955819a43158

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.8 KB Created: 2020-10-20 21:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 2f18dbcaceb1933c65cea1f516f9c2ba SHA-1: 78187c5ba54f90ff530d8afba039ac8c534b0932 SHA-256: a886955819a431586bb94b3b3960c906f5cdf2246de18906fbd6b469f021bf91

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 VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious macro-based document. The presence of a VBA macro file named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the macro execution is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
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` `71f866a5571402330f425e0ab90aed18ba72c53599dc9c41907ca6e320ae2301`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	18801 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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