Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab353b4f5f0ab68…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

141.0 KB Created: 2020-10-26 15:23:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c4ea9406b2e4779ba56072f321c4bcd5 SHA-1: bda69bd865f40e4b5a9875120ce57746b4218ec0 SHA-256: 2ab353b4f5f0ab68ccce5b36f9b6dfd09a8d88f5bde9eb7c8186ab1d5f7327e2
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro that uses CreateObject. This points to the document's primary function being the execution of malicious code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The obfuscated document body text, while difficult to parse directly, contains patterns consistent with macro execution commands.

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
ba1af4dba1aa75f927c350af06a94edad859236070021b34b079fb1b956a0718
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16121 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.