Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7feb5e1063df3699…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

142.2 KB Created: 2020-09-25 16:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3cb04f1644b1ee9d4581ee9fcd512068 SHA-1: 97a3ec30e4ce27805c7cd9c2ee5dc636a82a7365 SHA-256: 7feb5e1063df3699d6d266bbe5baa298dd7a70798be319ad5f25e21b1133d1d6
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The presence of a Document_Open macro, CreateObject calls, and VBA p-code auto-execution strongly indicates malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, a known downloader family. The VBA script, though obfuscated, is designed to execute a payload, likely downloaded from a remote source.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9768415-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9768415-1
  • 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
24dc32bb0bf265d759acaab1be69526609f3f4e182439affcdf3ab2add969ffb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17320 bytes