Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2873d35b283c5aa3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

143.6 KB Created: 2020-09-25 19:15:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9bf878f9911d7a19d1a00ed6837c7499 SHA-1: d683a93191e7792fb22f4db67772115b3f0643a0 SHA-256: 2873d35b283c5aa3290debc9f802d58419b5e37937e3a5bd38d867df4d6b2420
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic and high-severity OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firings strongly indicate malicious VBA macro activity. The presence of a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'CreateObject' suggests the execution of code upon opening the document. This is consistent with Emotet's known behavior of downloading and executing further stages. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9768415-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9768415-1
  • 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
f7aec5ed0700c38686fed103b8e955ba1df17f289b657d0b562d676e1e8a24d1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16307 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.