Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c88715b14506c09…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

130.9 KB Created: 2020-10-14 22:05:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6fa05b9e1bb5c1d9aa58443b1253b7e8 SHA-1: 54d530d3b58e5605af43ca795f57b71505d446d0 SHA-256: 6c88715b14506c098bdb14189c07de84d038dced2aaf5bbaab724330738c2264
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777973-1', strongly indicating the Emotet family. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of a Document_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject, a common technique for executing malicious code. The VBA script itself is heavily obfuscated but contains calls to CreateObject, suggesting it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body's obfuscated text further supports the malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777973-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777973-1
  • 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
9296410b78ac92b55714bdfa954afbb0bd00efb2266f225f69af6657d47bd2de		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9460 bytes

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