Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454685094885959c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

166.6 KB Created: 2020-10-20 13:16:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 155a238c905c99bc69db1c1ea1aea020 SHA-1: d9726658e8d59c705e6a7681104d5c2ea7ca044e SHA-256: 454685094885959c80b6daf83c782183bc3761fc0f9e8dfd792360cb7f3ad670
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 within the document, identified as macros.bas, further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0' directly attributes this file to the Emotet family, known for its downloader capabilities. The Document_Open macro likely executes VBA code to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0
  • 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
db983f63a3f14ba21ce878505faeebf248407a72c9ac689ac190379ed7abf96d		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17571 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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