Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c9ff67f89283e4c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

136.1 KB Created: 2020-10-15 07:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: b59e1ecc144b7d34d41793dc4c5f6242 SHA-1: 4b1228da8c86ddb30f967f2f321dbf44d96e08a7 SHA-256: 2c9ff67f89283e4cabb242bfd720cb00629a77fc74a7c7bb37384f708209a4ec
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0'. Static analysis revealed the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject and p-code auto-execution. This indicates the macro is designed to run automatically upon opening the document, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of a benign URL in the document body is not considered a threat.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0
  • 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
05186e239e76e1c73e5319ce1be1478c63b01a327801cd1193ca1ac174bd447f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 11222 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.