Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24d43bb8047d932a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

134.0 KB Created: 2020-09-29 04:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f08d27d5c6a3f2b54f672c7ab3aec12e SHA-1: c79a53691ec644d9b39d83dab115aa0a5fbf2a9e SHA-256: 24d43bb8047d932aea22f46823d430865265adf8afd6e04c16dd59fbac24e047
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769095-0', strongly indicating the Emotet family. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that utilizes 'CreateObject' for execution. This suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The obfuscated document body content does not provide further clues to the specific lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769095-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769095-0
  • 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
d04833e53843bfcf6544d888c124f488e78f247212586680bbec5bbafe93c514
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6702 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.