Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31658c6055bda692…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

175.2 KB Created: 2020-10-20 15:27:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0ed8d8505a89f509859de1ba58eb41b5 SHA-1: 1094ab1c5186c7d4b73e1e49a0d33e688e33d9c9 SHA-256: 31658c6055bda692c4a944b0dd23ef5f0ef7d312df172a1eafb6317a110f286b
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 heuristic and high-severity OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firings indicate the presence of a malicious VBA macro designed to execute automatically when the document is opened. This macro is identified as Emotet by ClamAV. The macro's likely intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
4ae9206e4b66c21807f47ed3b7c5982ab29db0a36a53a5da071ac077a7c0588d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18780 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.