Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bc521550fad4a12…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.1 KB Created: 2020-09-16 18:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1e4c3c2ded34e4201f000e600b69b2d5 SHA-1: 73ed9d7c96bd48f229d569733058ef559091a73c SHA-256: 2bc521550fad4a12b0bb8f34a8958db7b2f5b50e9f8579d30d814cee697ab694
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection explicitly identifies the file as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0'. Heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'CreateObject' for execution. This indicates the document is designed to automatically run malicious code when opened, consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of downloading and executing additional malware.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0
  • 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
c8eacd47a01532c076db7a43a0d927f95cb78ca92fb9fc841101993b58287d9b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19132 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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