Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde0c1be55b021f9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .DOCX

128.1 KB Created: 2020-01-31 19:42:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word 16.0000
MD5: 88c4564cedcccc4e976481417edf0501 SHA-1: ad76e8e6620513b861495d75710ce5bdf7d97f81 SHA-256: dde0c1be55b021f902f9015294939ed714096f2de1940a4c467dbe5e8ecbb55b
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

This OOXML document contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro and a GetObject call, which are indicative of malicious intent. ClamAV detections confirm this, identifying it as 'Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7572661-0'. The presence of VBA macros and the Emotet family attribution strongly suggest the document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7572661-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7572661-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing
    • http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
f576441decd9c5abba082cf895d8072fa89005c5c54232d594e1e36d2c480702		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 8692 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
a95c60b9f1b12ce0318b49db6f0149dba894f256011dde34f464c69e9153d383		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: word/vbaProject.bin 56832 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7572661-0
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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