Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 106359e17594a326…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

175.9 KB Created: 2020-10-20 15:27:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9767b1e887ed9e4fce18a8cb6001fcdd SHA-1: 4d9f13b1496bca9f6a10818c66b276e0ee02a30b SHA-256: 106359e17594a3265349fbfc1a2fd1e2f19940ca5c4b2262c1d021bb8d74fe11
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a specific Emotet signature. Static analysis reveals the presence of a Document_Open VBA macro, which is a common execution vector for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject and obfuscated code, indicating an attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL is benign and likely a false positive.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
4ae9206e4b66c21807f47ed3b7c5982ab29db0a36a53a5da071ac077a7c0588d		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18780 bytes

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