Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 368c65572de503cf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

207.3 KB Created: 2020-10-30 05:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c9bd8cd4cb466923b7de58a9194247b1 SHA-1: 142926dd142daf3a2a439dd9325c4cd69967c5b1 SHA-256: 368c65572de503cf23b71bc24a913911eaf124cff53481f92d75ae1ad48f0eed
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-exec macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family and a downloader functionality. The macro likely uses CreateObject to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, though benign, is likely a placeholder or part of the obfuscation.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
e4d0fb437400efd48ba8788e6598db97f27abf48ca87508f936aac5cc138edbb		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17457 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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