Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2960dd68c371680d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.5 KB Created: 2020-10-26 17:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 82030ad4b8ee940fc7b98ccdb67996c2 SHA-1: 3beb3330873b4f08d1a310e9050885371d15ece9 SHA-256: 2960dd68c371680d27dc0f404b13568b2274901eb683c0a4cfa8b74510d5a74e
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 detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious document. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to immediately execute malicious code upon opening. While no specific URL for payload download was extracted, the overall pattern is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0
  • 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
fd86ec2eb619814e7cd62b76d9f6553c2ce07800d98173938893210dd89c469b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15663 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.