Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · e9b7c94dee2c27b2

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

208.6 KB Created: 2020-10-30 05:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: f5aab5529b4a2aa525b86af03b7af0b8 SHA-1: 883fd9a0d4d317a1b4779c078ed70dfba45b50bb SHA-256: e9b7c94dee2c27b26623cc2a53d97da08f2dea09de379a1c3f8557b6254b0887

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing, suggests the macro is designed to run automatically and execute arbitrary code. This is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using malicious documents to download and execute further payloads.

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` `e4d0fb437400efd48ba8788e6598db97f27abf48ca87508f936aac5cc138edbb`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	17457 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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