Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27a9009cd17248d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

171.5 KB Created: 2020-09-22 18:42:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8f536e4a0935ccfc60263c53583fb85c SHA-1: a7a6072da8acc813e486078c5ea6be5b49624f0f SHA-256: 27a9009cd17248d4d19b35988974f0e755e69a439f1025ece6b2ffb357087846
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject and GetObject calls. This is indicative of Emotet malware, which often uses such techniques to download and execute further payloads. The ClamAV detection also confirms this family. No specific URLs or executable payloads were directly extracted, but the presence of the macro and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
4c1d45ab400998e9849e03fb488749a88ec1375f45fc179ad034e6ee3d25ecfd
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21065 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.