Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 330ee4f0efd63dbf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

252.5 KB Created: 2020-09-17 19:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7d6206288b25aab110c64702ba2a50a8 SHA-1: a144c6334c80302425c731e578e86c0bdde0b7aa SHA-256: 330ee4f0efd63dbf210487a2063245aaadee2a0e9914d2defea50dc68abc3426
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.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. The presence of a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'CreateObject' and p-code auto-execution indicates the macro is designed to run automatically and likely download a second-stage payload. The document body content is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
  • 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
f3e5512d27b8b9bc41f3042e7c20b3a4762b4069585ccb21c6a950e8fd05377a		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21986 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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