Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20941bd38393b467…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

189.4 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: fccf3a46841e9928d79675d2092d04d9 SHA-1: e0fdf4761b034b028ffb033c1341dbb6993b331e SHA-256: 20941bd38393b4671052b248c37c646a392867a199ef142f06b047de1130c9c8
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains a Document_Open VBA macro that is automatically executed upon opening. This macro utilizes CreateObject, a common technique for downloading and executing additional payloads. The ClamAV detection explicitly identifies this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The presence of VBA macros and the auto-execution behavior strongly indicate a malicious document designed to fetch and run further malware.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0
  • 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
439e57830647c2aa4289de5e25d2759440b9e1601599acc03def2897db1f3da9
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20114 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.