Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e4c073c73caaf6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

192.0 KB Created: 2020-12-21 21:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6677797c75b2281329531b797c2c31ea SHA-1: 84cd27e7c448df4b5c851a939415b86faf2909b7 SHA-256: 29e4c073c73caaf696c76f3794f303286cbf8c0150cc14bf0933f9bff747db53
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample contains VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject. ClamAV identifies this as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure to open a file, likely related to an error. The Document_Open macro is designed to execute malicious code upon opening the document, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
8aae0e70694468f75c3b71f11fefc9e062894c6e53b1f2a4dd3530766c509e7d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10278 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.