Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00287db33a9a448f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

87.5 KB Created: 2018-10-06 02:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-11-13
MD5: fbdf277ab8dd773afbf2a63613728d81 SHA-1: 7dddbbd6ac444604953b5bd9aa32ee9e3d4984ad SHA-256: 00287db33a9a448f12e19da33c437e148ffee2a6e7e99a16596d7af30fa4a860
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0, indicating it is likely part of the Emotet malware family. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest a downloader functionality. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern where the document serves as a lure to download a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

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