Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · aba055a4d6baf2e0

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.1 KB Created: 2020-10-16 13:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 97ae9f5677abb52f567125796aca8ac4 SHA-1: 037535d1913d1c993f66d3ef034a3cddbd74f1fe SHA-256: aba055a4d6baf2e01b233d95d96289737a71545ddcf63cdcfb6b4448af47b220

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the auto-execution firing, suggests the document is designed to run code immediately upon opening. This code likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778560-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778560-0
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` `80b8cf2680dee027d2b0bedfb311ad72d589d776013195663ff998d7cc50edcd`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	15454 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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