Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34eea5e4f2e92b63…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

222.0 KB Created: 2020-10-28 06:28:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 49172bd0896e3352672f590ca1f2cc02 SHA-1: 7d0162c20cc132b26e95a19f5f380d1af4337e9d SHA-256: 34eea5e4f2e92b636f9fcade14a7aec223d0ef960f9c0f6c749b2b806096aeb5
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA code designed to execute automatically. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further clues.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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
7f3b9de1e0285548916c28f6601d8d02c3123bdd009e8218f5871d9b0b89faf5
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16327 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.