Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b59e4314d2b1bbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

176.3 KB Created: 2020-10-20 20:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 642dc0c582c4addd857a63c55b660635 SHA-1: 3415979d09e7e09bbf614db651655e28667ae2b2 SHA-256: 7b59e4314d2b1bbefd045815d54be5bd19315bcd13e3de6816a36bfd0930e032
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the Emotet family detection, suggests this document is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body content appears to be obfuscated or encoded, further supporting the malicious nature.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
3a0ea03d0cd0ea456810f4542b81cbd362ee0487bda83ef13f410b115b67e727
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18739 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.