Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31b3dd38586dcd9b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 12:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0acb93deb608bc28fbfe26ec0f0b3273 SHA-1: 81652f9b3552b8634ad96c0ed8dc539f6e7f8eae SHA-256: 31b3dd38586dcd9b1365a5c39d8093b83458be579509f98e5bbb87582a9d2d41
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 and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The Emotet family is known for using such techniques to download and execute further stages. The document body was truncated and unreadable, but the macro execution is the primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762404-0
  • 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
49b4ebbf014fb7982286797412148a9d5a2325fbd8b23512b4e2381b987c3c86
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21867 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.