Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · ce1d7fe9a715dbd5

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.7 KB Created: 2020-09-30 10:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: b5f7019fc2b3d121ba20b3ff5c99897f SHA-1: e548c604fa396b0e0ba2faa2609e8731f2a844cd SHA-256: ce1d7fe9a715dbd5b408b17ff12010a67d3d1d002a9484370931304e35254f12

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC indicate the presence of a malicious VBA macro. The macro is designed to execute code upon opening the document, a common Emotet delivery technique. The heuristic 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' specifically mentions 'CreateObject', suggesting the macro likely uses this to instantiate objects for malicious purposes, such as downloading and executing a secondary payload. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, further supporting a malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
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` `e574dc9e5be70b9e64389cc5809b4b9a70fc86bbb2ebeadb9aa3663111f6add5`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	10540 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 28 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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