Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e6c5f430b82245a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

174.9 KB Created: 2020-10-20 14:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3c0f1c9f8c7f5677de27c9d6d25018bb SHA-1: 0ccaf3b1afb7d6cb3392fbe1f0c49732d268f7bf SHA-256: 3e6c5f430b82245a6dc68c07caea0e4b8e477e848a6c3834105fa4b913e2c1bb
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious macro-based document. The presence of a 'macros.bas' file further supports this. The document body's obfuscated nature suggests it's designed to prompt macro execution for payload delivery. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0' provides a specific family attribution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
417a16a51c05c178612698fd783ed577ce9b3b76b7f937b9782e824861e12aec
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18804 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.