Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11e1780e215a9521…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

164.0 KB
MD5: ae295ee7ee45cac846113d5495869afc SHA-1: c4c5b81939476c89a2925c0080491ed9f5e65113 SHA-256: 11e1780e215a952185315253632033b1e42e269f59252e80ccc002e7ed15c086
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains a critical heuristic for an obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader that uses CreateObject and Shell execution, indicative of a downloader. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0' further confirms its malicious nature and association with Emotet. The Document_Open macro is designed to run automatically, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0
  • 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
70cde1a7768c914d768cc1a9e45a0e017daeffeaf31f2cd2ffc5285d23649526		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13216 bytes

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