Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29141a1cf466b6b6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.3 KB Created: 2020-10-20 21:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: dd338b934682f4c1f0f78e317e7270a7 SHA-1: 3baec51b1f2f32e246dd315438228ce0643aa53b SHA-256: 29141a1cf466b6b6194b6b5eebe6ae0d14538433315e0211f6fc04d0f88c341c
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The critical ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, and the heuristics indicate the macro uses CreateObject to execute code. This suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
71f866a5571402330f425e0ab90aed18ba72c53599dc9c41907ca6e320ae2301
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18801 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.