Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bd94401c1229600…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.8 KB Created: 2020-10-19 08:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a8828d4412e72b17dfce0135cf5fe1b9 SHA-1: c663bce47853f11219646848a9d0a4ebc319d609 SHA-256: 1bd94401c1229600ca4bb9e9060aac93364a47e970ddf3b42b4ca5cf5c3989dc
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780414-0'. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute p-code. This strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common characteristic of Emotet. The obfuscated document body content does not provide further insight into the specific lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780414-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780414-0
  • 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
e05e00e5695f255205cdf8f3c815d1b7180582c720372a44ffa69b0bf5e004ae
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15558 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.