Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 381a05910438bfbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

184.8 KB Created: 2020-12-23 07:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1cd40afb1c4bf21634824c7aad16ca9e SHA-1: 9c4ada79e6c000b171eb6628959f1d83552ec6df SHA-256: 381a05910438bfbe38d8cde701cbbf020f0e303a1be1a9825df6087a8071b37c
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains patterns suggestive of exploit attempts or malicious code execution. The detected family 'Emotet' aligns with these indicators.

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
d5578521430d19d3e1a741e6facd5db8ed236e25c6fc3d692889ddd7a6d225bf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8783 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.