Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e6101a8f14873de…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

159.5 KB
MD5: a7818fbe2ac96f44e7029e2005c20a2e SHA-1: b18eff0ab6a01fd71e90fb649290cdd6b2b79180 SHA-256: 1e6101a8f14873de44af70c1ed5c5cb0ca10e6f17fee80336a1aa440bb517fd9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject. ClamAV identifies this as 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0', strongly suggesting Emotet. The VBA macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0
  • 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
9b820b2402def2f5ee5a5a3a44ae4d03778e1b1e351b3b609e3682fdcff76601		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13140 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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