Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ebdff0201647a1d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

200.8 KB Created: 2020-12-22 06:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b44728f35a9d78884cbaa480c2803596 SHA-1: b4a5389602fca989f4d6c4e3d8bb48079624e590 SHA-256: 0ebdff0201647a1df0ad578dcdfff8ca9e91c379b6183c53845de8e226b95c39
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject, indicating a malicious downloader. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The VBA code is obfuscated, but the presence of the Document_Open macro and CreateObject call strongly suggests it attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
87b72d633bd79d3d21c1246dbcc11e62ebdefc06e96dee650ec7c8e181386692		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16335 bytes

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