Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · f8d5a1b46171cde4

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.6 KB Created: 2020-09-25 11:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: b949c48a92bac8d5855357d4760cc221 SHA-1: 4464410ecf388524ddbac0a5a7891cccca892bec SHA-256: f8d5a1b46171cde4b65081fe6bcfd6743315f78b691ca2624381b28e068d44fd

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' and the detection of an embedded URL further support this. The document body's obfuscated text, which appears to be an attempt to disguise executable commands, suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `426aca538f654441d66e245a00bfc928dacf37832bbf946df52799fa3650ecb1`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	24489 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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