Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 136907ebba7a92b5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

165.5 KB
MD5: eef34a93c1115dd669b088e962f53cb9 SHA-1: b0c0415d382c7621170cda54e722eb604b58da08 SHA-256: 136907ebba7a92b5ace57bb225e3e0d6fb970f54a47fb6c3c2e50c861e361eb3
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains heavily obfuscated VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-exec loader, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The presence of CreateObject and Shell execution calls, combined with ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0', suggests the macro's primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload. The obfuscation and loader pattern are characteristic of Emotet.

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
2e7804ab75605a75d075d6d0c921f0be6aae14339dbe4dea8f7d3ec5e974f266		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13232 bytes

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