Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6058ef6e0e5b82a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

204.3 KB Created: 2020-12-22 12:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8f7fefb40c1739655c7c3df9e1d814f3 SHA-1: ae00729c7724c2919fb0af11aa788e35e773cd2b SHA-256: 6058ef6e0e5b82a128a30c33b6c685e0a574af7622f39cf0cb68326e76c0f391
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 was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0', indicating it is likely an Emotet downloader. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject strongly suggests it is designed to execute malicious code. This macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common tactic for Emotet.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
b223e36ca03f3aef1de34ece9213428b8c399a8d27f7650232938837efe41a69
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16333 bytes