Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19a709ff8ecb374a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

176.3 KB Created: 2020-10-20 15:27:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 07974097a1561519e36d42dd0d28dbaa SHA-1: 69f0a3ea9294416dc79ec640ca02bd8bcb1c2c59 SHA-256: 19a709ff8ecb374af7e40714b3ff541cc7753c7e69a7f0250d797356cd4ccb59
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. ClamAV detection explicitly identifies it as Emotet. The VBA script, though obfuscated, is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic.

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
4ae9206e4b66c21807f47ed3b7c5982ab29db0a36a53a5da071ac077a7c0588d		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18780 bytes

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