Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e38c2c63f4d9aa5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

198.5 KB Created: 2020-10-21 13:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a46d829b1b74580097df36aa38f469ee SHA-1: 6f869337dd5589e09dd3851db290f9e5cab46636 SHA-256: 4e38c2c63f4d9aa5935914a9f792526533ae7ff0f2278bdd6570bf2379e1e125
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open macro, which is designed to execute automatically. This macro is highly indicative of a dropper functionality, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family and its dropper capabilities.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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
95eb3c5d035a5c49033717199bc50764986e3b5ab99bba0bc56e259ec5a3061f		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 23248 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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