Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71c1be4d00ef4ec7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

154.5 KB Created: 2020-10-16 19:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 4dea19e33a61f2d72097669134a99dda SHA-1: 3c335f6aac7fe52d0181c19c5f3aba26f8f0cfbe SHA-256: 71c1be4d00ef4ec74c73abf05187dacf0335a393a145eff2b2efd68cbaa91b67
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes obfuscated code. The ClamAV detection and the presence of a CreateObject call strongly suggest Emotet, a known malware family. The VBA code likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778628-0
  • 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
d7b10db6ad3bff10dd176d31b83ada7ffa72a5d7b1b67bb513aee8ccfc4d5f3f
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15292 bytes