Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16d5439c01527551…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

220.0 KB Created: 2020-10-28 06:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f25dcf2d2f2fe88e60c1f3e54b47dea0 SHA-1: 9ea277926d4894746c3e7fbaec564d35e21e1bb7 SHA-256: 16d5439c0152755150b32848c0e1028b62f4b42b1951b16c470eac31948cf651
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV with a specific Emotet signature. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, including a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, which are commonly used by Emotet to download and execute further stages. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated but the presence of Document_open and CreateObject calls strongly suggests malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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
5c8508b4422f9cf9f0517311e463bebb8a10b40538c4b01e1d12399253dacfe3		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16608 bytes

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