Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b361711d30d76f59…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

181.0 KB Created: 2020-10-21 10:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9778c34ee8bdce7cb575068ef287e30d SHA-1: b354609006e6e02f0e9278e7f7d1d5d08c2744d3 SHA-256: b361711d30d76f59bf40e1cd7590527b18e4336788722790adc5742c75c9dbb8
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a Document_Open VBA macro, which is a common technique for initial execution. The macro uses CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, indicating it's designed to run automatically upon opening. ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' strongly suggests this is an Emotet variant used for dropping additional malware. The embedded URL, though benign according to the analysis, is often used in conjunction with malicious payloads.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
2d652a5f62c7cd7db265ab6f01298582724932c4485a1fde21ad075960ba4c72		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20722 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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