Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63e250d528c0bbe3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

133.0 KB Created: 2020-10-14 07:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5d608db88f71a2301ec5d3fd4dbe775b SHA-1: f0f11955844fe1ff10a37bad08eeea0805ac7ed2 SHA-256: 63e250d528c0bbe30d6210de803a0b9aa2e2f23d1a76cbf0adc3aa7f5382fa85
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes obfuscated code. The presence of CreateObject calls and the ClamAV detection signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0' strongly indicate Emotet activity. The VBA code likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0
  • 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
826434d3a30f8115a2b858063b6ee79ded3d3145d977887f7c2b014f2947746b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9581 bytes