Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f142da96c27c42c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

163.9 KB Created: 2020-12-29 09:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 17eb95be4ad8791a526a648d35dd9181 SHA-1: d7a34c61deb65cf2c7f2c2d8f738b108b19054ac SHA-256: 5f142da96c27c42cdab7da8fcfbb99296d7d730fed8ce10337ae1df038de7aec
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The script attempts to open and read from multiple local file paths, suggesting it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection also explicitly names this as an Emotet variant.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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
6da840fced7a7bda7d3718618b9594dcc725e55f8f4a2ec9781d876a5b984b87		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8247 bytes

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