Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · ab8be8e21a7c5f0a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

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

MD5: 8169be4e715fdfaf76c652d47f7904ff SHA-1: 338a5e90c969bbcfc283ee3dac13690bf09a9270 SHA-256: ab8be8e21a7c5f0a158818bdf5fa9883acaffa78d8cfa5cae36ba7d756b8fed6

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a Microsoft Office document containing a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening (Document_Open). This macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for launching malicious code. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet, a well-known banking trojan and downloader. The presence of a VBA macro with auto-execution and the specific ClamAV signature strongly indicate Emotet's typical delivery mechanism.

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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