Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16eb97b9e71a4f97…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

156.9 KB Created: 2021-01-12 22:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: fc28a0d9c483d4485f18c52f86f5ff51 SHA-1: e7055ac1f773becbc7fcf8e28361301c7d56c159 SHA-256: 16eb97b9e71a4f97f60c57a97cef02a96840cf2265de548a48d100c53682f079
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' directly suggests this is a downloader variant of the Emotet family. The macro's obfuscated nature and use of CreateObject point towards it attempting to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
f080f423f3af32bf8c04d24f919af2345f2f15905193e2101e5f7b51599e8466		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7512 bytes

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