Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b198c2870d863f6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

162.6 KB Created: 2020-09-14 06:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8b164477080547740882ee5201db6d09 SHA-1: ae4a110c4bac468290f07138cfefff938765dcaf SHA-256: 1b198c2870d863f63e94db4784883c3f150707358a1a2f37dca16a5f6821964f
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro execution. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact further supports this. The document body contains obfuscated VBA code that appears to be constructing commands for downloading and executing a payload, likely contributing to the Emotet family's known behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
94aa0eae3715e5e4c777d8559a3d12a3d055d6c09f9bd5aa9415cdba60070681
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25226 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.