Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 534741cd011d3d7a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

159.7 KB Created: 2020-12-29 13:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9453778fe2955bd9698c4c1ca38620be SHA-1: eaf4d334b08d855698fbf929a21fba487d191f53 SHA-256: 534741cd011d3d7a34c5c3c0dee6f721faec6a7e6f81720011c3f0d54556b0e8
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious activity. The presence of a Document_Open macro that likely executes code via CreateObject suggests the script's intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature specifically points to Emotet. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
f0a26dbda37cee5a9e56f370f4faad071837ea1fd898646f154d0f1b66a66162
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8375 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.