Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · ff560f270317afc9

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.6 KB Created: 2020-10-20 20:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 327c0f651cdbb837b976fcef8c98e742 SHA-1: 60017b3ae61de92c4f0686aa7a060e05d4805cb3 SHA-256: ff560f270317afc9d31e1eae55c277c99bdd45f9fbd3a2dc44e8929a25ff065c

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0', indicating a known Emotet variant. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'CreateObject' for execution. This suggests the macro is designed to run automatically when the document is opened, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further clues to the specific 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` `3a0ea03d0cd0ea456810f4542b81cbd362ee0487bda83ef13f410b115b67e727`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	18739 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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