Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 076fb0e8f819e233…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

187.7 KB Created: 2020-09-16 12:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9c8b9c465f1df9d633b3207ba308f80d SHA-1: 2221e40c1d967e6ed03493cb8cd59cda735e66cd SHA-256: 076fb0e8f819e233b7697c6b5aedbf7fd22e688fb842ae16467c62e7ec4d3e62
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering a Document_Open auto-execution macro. The presence of CreateObject calls and p-code execution strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. ClamAV detection explicitly identifies it as Emotet, a known banking trojan and downloader.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0
  • 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
49b4ebbf014fb7982286797412148a9d5a2325fbd8b23512b4e2381b987c3c86
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21867 bytes