Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33c9159cb870c324…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

155.2 KB Created: 2020-10-16 06:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8b6b32442ca9b9166fe4b883de8b306f SHA-1: f72557419c69048bfe0ee42c62fc99f825759863 SHA-256: 33c9159cb870c324fdc315846558083363dc9560f0156ba73478128c25a3b38c
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is a macro-enabled Word document identified by ClamAV as Emotet. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject indicates the execution of a downloader. This downloader is likely responsible for fetching and executing additional malicious payloads, a common tactic for Emotet. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778460-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778460-0
  • 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
d61a5c08d74b05c0be099936f48870810cfcd0fa95621c486c59e0d00fa9de51
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.