Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e98bef98194397d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

165.4 KB Created: 2020-10-20 12:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1fdbeed41aa5933929156a669f05edf3 SHA-1: d48accacfeac68cd2112f1fbf50e091c81167edb SHA-256: 2e98bef98194397d9ed6991c80f5625893a60603057c532ce9f24cec16a58f9d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of a VBA macro file named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family, which is known for its downloader capabilities. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, preventing analysis of its specific lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0
  • 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
a791bb7ba5242dbbc595d3114d3368d96d9feda91ba232c650f7097f210ce92c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17778 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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