Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5639e7a042bf9f85…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

137.9 KB Created: 2020-09-28 21:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 02832cb7176c7643468075d17249faac SHA-1: 85339a0ea625ccb453ae4fa65a2bace33467b8d9 SHA-256: 5639e7a042bf9f85686904b16a9be76f65bae91c8a03139667f3af404e3eb3af
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The macro's execution of CreateObject suggests it's designed to perform actions like downloading additional malware. The document body content is obfuscated and appears to be junk data, likely to evade basic content analysis.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769000-0
  • 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
af1832d1f4c91fc85d2c99e2822b1b7480a5e715a732a96dc374f162b3694b82
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6632 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.