Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e2776b0be25cad0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

131.5 KB Created: 2020-10-14 22:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 40235f6b9e450c2616453aae5a967f59 SHA-1: 10e51befd4d70ac94d82ec098a5afb528f79bc1c SHA-256: 5e2776b0be25cad00ce38d390a99aa4cb5be83befb044944673f6fa495d2f854
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly identifies it as Emotet malware. The VBA script uses CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777973-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777973-1
  • 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.
  • 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
9296410b78ac92b55714bdfa954afbb0bd00efb2266f225f69af6657d47bd2de		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9460 bytes

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