Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66ded24f149f5656…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

112.9 KB Created: 2018-10-04 10:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-12-09
MD5: b00ee2e3e87586b8d573d33705122557 SHA-1: 55d3e0cb0166f981262e13d2342af1a9d88e894b SHA-256: 66ded24f149f56561b0f84ffe1d0f1b7d69a82ea556bbc7d59331368f946cbea
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826498-0, indicating it functions as a downloader for the Emotet banking trojan. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest a malicious document designed to lure users into downloading and executing a secondary payload. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, providing no further context.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826498-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826498-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

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