Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c6e55ce58d92d02…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.2 KB Created: 2020-09-22 18:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 89bd0c1aa7befbfe7810cc2dc514acb7 SHA-1: bc03f4d74d3324c19b0f58ab85dccfa133c715b9 SHA-256: 2c6e55ce58d92d029cd705c98ed98f6af05cf19ec0a08c8db7ebdcc19de72e3f
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject and GetObject calls. This is indicative of a downloader. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The document body is heavily corrupted and unreadable, but the presence of the Document_Open macro and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest the intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
bd654d20c055e0b0e127587789558080b1c423748b3142eb9ab3aa76d6d97f9b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20393 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.