Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · afeb53f8204c23e2

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

196.5 KB Created: 2020-09-21 22:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: c4c4906cb07aa1b42987348fddec9d74 SHA-1: 9adb5dcffd128733d58b59c4add11f058d80cd24 SHA-256: afeb53f8204c23e2ff8f5733e97220ecfb71466eb4f3f9ad1aef0807fd216973

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes VBA code. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and GetObject calls, which are commonly used by Emotet to download and execute further stages. ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet. The embedded URL is benign and likely a false positive from the extraction process.

Heuristics 8

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0
Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN

Document_Open macro
CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ

CreateObject call
GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ

GetObject 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` `3f69d910c7ab65b68002c6115856f94d0a2fe7883066824f7d890ec0735d30db`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	19084 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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