Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00d004d041cd6d18…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

251.7 KB Created: 2020-09-17 19:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b964810eed7c451662a8aa21c0629965 SHA-1: 2997e46cf5dbaba2072d53dfdd6438bde373d001 SHA-256: 00d004d041cd6d18ac2b3b26f53b642816578698bb96055a921f74a0e16aca23
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code automatically. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as an Emotet downloader variant. The VBA code appears to be obfuscated, but the overall intent is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
  • 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.
  • 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
f3e5512d27b8b9bc41f3042e7c20b3a4762b4069585ccb21c6a950e8fd05377a		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21986 bytes

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