Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 615de4c01c61e261…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

185.0 KB Created: 2020-10-30 04:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: bebd9aa25a37477f8dff205211fa2ad7 SHA-1: 00e2da1696ae00976e972e9538957ece2adb100a SHA-256: 615de4c01c61e261c017bd338c822b21b294728d9f7bac3199e139be0d1c3675
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 is heavily obfuscated but its structure and the presence of CreateObject suggest it is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL was confirmed benign, so it is not included as an IOC.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0
  • 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
f7e154fbc1687723523f4f201e3a1591c84897657fe14056a01af3060d347cbe		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17509 bytes

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