Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · e9a5e9c3eacc517d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.2 KB Created: 2020-10-20 14:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: fb0b6bb62d7a99e998697f6c95181608 SHA-1: b44f1ad738f2196bfc018f54a433517067478a92 SHA-256: e9a5e9c3eacc517ddee148273dc5ef07f997026bed7f3ee2cb4d7c333a7fece0

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The presence of a Document_Open macro and the associated heuristics strongly suggest this document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic. The obfuscated document body content does not provide further specific clues about the lure.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
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` `417a16a51c05c178612698fd783ed577ce9b3b76b7f937b9782e824861e12aec`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	18804 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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