Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · d435b2493ea1edee

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

101.2 KB Created: 2020-09-29 17:52:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 8b1733c0d0a3afce2d0d1bb268fb7e3c SHA-1: 910f42c468f3fd652571196e358f2d3b8de6ecd0 SHA-256: d435b2493ea1edeebc83a76235d60fa8e4f0f9323ae6fed0920974f35c301fe0

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious document. The presence of a VBA macro that likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, as suggested by the Emotet family attribution, is the primary attack vector. The document body's obfuscated nature further supports a malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769356-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769356-0
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` `77f0fc2bd0d5c985be4d4cb3501afb191ffadc98be204ef2c40c091585c5d90a`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	10395 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.