Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e11cde774f78807…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

172.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 13:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8e970500574d8b1cbca20469e4cbfdbc SHA-1: 8b979bd92d06024b56920e4352e1da027c17706b SHA-256: 3e11cde774f78807d056539d7c057d7e7925dbfaa329ec9d206341542ae3cfca
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

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 'macros.bas' file and the Emotet family attribution further support this. The VBA macros are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762108-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762108-0
  • 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
0bb2e800f836433b719494fb3a2cf1fc895dd947fc7213e26f377d26b01e1554
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22004 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.