Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26aeaa9dcc83b725…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

128.7 KB Created: 2020-10-14 13:53:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5470329da39b69ef0b8bbbb5defb3684 SHA-1: c23c40f6e5dd578feeecb9c641bcafa0dcb15284 SHA-256: 26aeaa9dcc83b725d24a50ca59314ae4d632561d2b1238acdbfd83f2507d1297
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests the malware attempts to execute automatically upon opening the document, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature specifically identifies it as an Emotet downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778040-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778040-0
  • 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
a085f52da3766ff03b3361ab273cac0c99aef403d2275ac551d698dcc8f8bb33
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9635 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.