Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62b438f1aa3f7708…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

259.5 KB
MD5: a8b86f02ff4c0ea6b1801c147b3b5b5c SHA-1: 7426e33c2ace1603d0944c54ca0088705ceaea36 SHA-256: 62b438f1aa3f77084e934f91334751fa1ec4e661d03cdc927e0ea7343fb53a1b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. ClamAV identifies it as a downloader, and the macro's structure suggests it's designed to fetch and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, though marked benign, is listed as an IOC.

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
b6798bb5311b4f2b692b304112e80c31df30b22e53307915d8ecb36c818b404c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18585 bytes