Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b432b455199d9450…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.4 KB Created: 2020-09-25 11:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8dc21158e0bc12e288c7638e60705d81 SHA-1: 3866a44d6d154bf8ee13e2ca3d1f6696d8f6ffae SHA-256: b432b455199d9450889f24d4bfa5f8d3e4cc5e5d224aa6f5a51d2d2a7f8cb482
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening the document, as indicated by the 'Document_Open' and 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' heuristics. This macro utilizes 'CreateObject' to execute a PowerShell command. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be part of the lure. The primary function of the macro is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
  • 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
426aca538f654441d66e245a00bfc928dacf37832bbf946df52799fa3650ecb1		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 24489 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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