Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1161ccd91275ccba…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

174.9 KB Created: 2020-10-20 21:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 24ca6d83dac3474e2c6fd85d9ddbfe93 SHA-1: 74c65b4f50a630f695028e98c9e223becf2332e5 SHA-256: 1161ccd91275ccbaac32ef4906e3492003bb10612a836f77bb185f608beaf64c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet. The obfuscated VBA script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL is benign, but the macro execution is the primary indicator.

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
71f866a5571402330f425e0ab90aed18ba72c53599dc9c41907ca6e320ae2301		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18801 bytes

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