Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c27cb7516d0e4e8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

202.5 KB Created: 2020-09-25 06:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3f9412c5fb1ba2341cf4d05c66ee2543 SHA-1: 27abfd0201be3d9e2365214beb41b35a70a35307 SHA-256: 3c27cb7516d0e4e83e0ecb6909b6e7a3db6cf1970f320f3cf3399b6e2d409b3a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. The ClamAV detection and heuristic firings strongly indicate Emotet. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be an attempt to disguise the execution of a PowerShell command. The Document_Open macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
  • 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
d802c65eb8f9df036cf46e9408744e30c5d95dae54b582b9f65ecb84ecb28fa8
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25261 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.