Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08950bd0b88ee694…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.2 KB Created: 2020-10-16 10:38:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 57c8f06ccdd0c91a6353636248927906 SHA-1: c555170a097f201347d1683b0cf2565547acba3d SHA-256: 08950bd0b88ee6941d13880b6a594546190c0bb35a72469bef188ecac39a037e
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 macro that uses CreateObject, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection confirms it as Emotet. The VBA script is heavily obfuscated but the presence of Document_Open and CreateObject strongly suggests it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL is benign and likely a false positive.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Emotet-9778443-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Emotet-9778443-1
  • 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
dae34bf6e418fa0d8b9b1311becc27775cd875aa2c1a1dc0c8de66f7f57fbc42		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15342 bytes

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