Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47fb863700031a20…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

191.9 KB Created: 2020-12-21 21:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a6e82e49f8fac750dea41d36e926f4d9 SHA-1: 91eba8f27fd7c0eec2f2c87ea18cfdbeeeac3a76 SHA-256: 47fb863700031a20e693b095a8cdb17ee3304a8e6db9ddee52b8b003d707cb4d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The critical ClamAV heuristic and high-severity VBA heuristics indicate this is a malicious document. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject strongly suggests it's designed to execute a payload. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure to enable macros. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0' directly points to the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
8aae0e70694468f75c3b71f11fefc9e062894c6e53b1f2a4dd3530766c509e7d
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10278 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.