Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 088b5efd0efd402b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 13:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c4090016ff4e3691f2e4e537e94fb2ea SHA-1: 636b5d968bfc274b1ebd84c61455d7d148a3d8f9 SHA-256: 088b5efd0efd402b92f9dfbe680ffac76a9ace98ae4ae89db3a4e249d424b5a5
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The sample was detected as Emotet by ClamAV, a known downloader family. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute VBA p-code. The obfuscated document body text, when deobfuscated, likely forms commands to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The VBA macro itself is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to deobfuscate and execute malicious code.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0
  • 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
aaf531f7a5bc5489efc2142934ae4807c7a8fc52a02b1483f9210c80918c01e7		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16228 bytes

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