Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0489df7c310e36db…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.4 KB Created: 2020-09-14 06:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5195547c36233cc3fb1a07277980dd71 SHA-1: 335f71e868f8f9e8efac2296439f0ed5b7831d6c SHA-256: 0489df7c310e36dbaadfa1f7ecad0b9be70573518cc2ec762f7880de7004562b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a Microsoft Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering a Document_Open macro. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and p-code execution, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet. The VBA macro code, though obfuscated, appears designed to execute further malicious actions, likely involving downloading a payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0
  • 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
94aa0eae3715e5e4c777d8559a3d12a3d055d6c09f9bd5aa9415cdba60070681
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25226 bytes