Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d6b85f9f6564071…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

138.8 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5ed8bd86b0623bca27ec3dc24a45c8f5 SHA-1: e656f436de1a050720dfa43b1397a71acbf75d93 SHA-256: 3d6b85f9f65640711318439f907eb96de0373d99872765323dbf7b21696159ea
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is a malicious DOC document containing VBA macros, specifically triggering on Document_Open. Heuristics indicate the use of CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior of downloading and executing further stages. The ClamAV detection also strongly suggests Emotet. No specific URLs or further script details were extracted to provide more granular IOCs or rationale.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
  • 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
af1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6632 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.