Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d187000b1d6e573…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.2 KB Created: 2020-10-02 08:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f12bc89e2fb2c8c4df7dab34a64037f8 SHA-1: 4e0fb476e625bb737ef620e7ed9c48ca55c34482 SHA-256: 0d187000b1d6e573014e3dea4272eafaa55554c899ee47d25b341e74ff3029f0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The heuristic firings indicate the use of CreateObject and VBA p-code execution, suggesting the macro attempts to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as an Emotet variant, reinforcing the family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
7051a023ff8c92545e9437031d326fa9393a821a4be28f0566a57a8f3610dd93		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10600 bytes

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