Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d9efcea665e28dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

153.8 KB Created: 2020-10-19 20:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 074e47532081462096d6c0a8cd0f8db9 SHA-1: a237e664800f65f09a5036b48199fa85697216b9 SHA-256: 0d9efcea665e28dc8d2c3e8de13fec5af94bea6e35a96b42a8e70567c7876b80
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a malicious Microsoft Word document containing VBA macros. The presence of a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, combined with ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780400-0', strongly indicates a downloader functionality. The obfuscated VBA script likely attempts to fetch and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780400-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780400-0
  • 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
2d3ce3834af78f24fa31a527ad1e694aefe01bd9c74b26ec94954a5af657ad56		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15599 bytes

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