Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0888ccddf63bf1e5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

212.3 KB Created: 2020-12-22 07:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a5b492693b34fae893afe85d925ab40b SHA-1: 588a1cfac777d648965f13de06d246788b1f2195 SHA-256: 0888ccddf63bf1e52f1fafb8327233a37c7bd5d2bb14fb08c5528dc5d436adeb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common characteristic of Emotet. The macro utilizes CreateObject to execute obfuscated code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. ClamAV detection further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
14cb129666fe7236490ef39627e3d26aa75021ad0921a70c33afa54d1e6f48ea
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16345 bytes