Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43cc95ed3a2f890…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

193.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 23:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 57875c26ec6b62379ff9c8f7e834a13e SHA-1: 4c85250cd58eae1b8b542274f40e65b61a10002e SHA-256: f43cc95ed3a2f8900938c6a240d69a2de909494821ee8308e740e2cda2fd31d7
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 to execute code. This is a common technique for Emotet to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection also strongly suggests Emotet. The embedded URL, while benign, is noted.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
32c875cc5445b529213c7b353e717e973bc3b3565cfb6b70a94210d83d471e9e		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16135 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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