Emotet Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis — malicious · 552caf55679b9a9c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

157.9 KB Created: 2021-01-12 17:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 03554d69dc3183616cc2a524d5f6e6e8 SHA-1: 187c3b5dae83f34af8382a26fa3b217b60012949 SHA-256: 552caf55679b9a9c5de05d044bc81719a1829006793d21eae4edfb2b983f8e9a

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of obfuscated document body text and the specific ClamAV signature suggest this file is part of the Emotet malware distribution network, likely attempting to download and execute a secondary payload.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `4eb2f1bd4f83b8d42d810ea94c6b146c20ccf37b8d5d53b11fcf53c71b96e42e`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	7385 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.