Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52edea717fc9984a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

170.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 18:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c7ca501150d103290ab6798b210916b7 SHA-1: 01a0e6083d217c0e70bb89c4bcb0dbd29dedeb3d SHA-256: 52edea717fc9984acb356860d50f67fadbf8a2eba4d7bec924ce02213a042ed9
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 malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro with auto-execution tokens, as flagged by OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC, suggests the macro is designed to run automatically upon opening the document. This is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using malicious documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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
89a7392bd1c1f3fe3b1a4c5e97fc737fc9e550b299f3eb72f43817655c9c1c0c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16436 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.