Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36919712f986c81f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

220.4 KB Created: 2020-09-18 06:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: eb7f792c3ade0da126d9121d7f922bdc SHA-1: c58abab0ef27321eaf196a958c30599183da5bcd SHA-256: 36919712f986c81feab840bee68faa72d3c7d9ba61a8cfd186b6b1b1190f3277
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0', strongly suggesting it belongs to the Emotet family. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject indicates the macro is designed to execute code automatically when the document is opened. This macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0
  • 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
88c8a6d475859011dad3993e76e09a2a592ce706e1bde139ef1cfc941be7102d		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20707 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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