Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 801b78c4d39faa6d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

161.8 KB Created: 2020-09-24 23:07:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cc2f9379013e919516457eb9349c57a0 SHA-1: 2aeebe58c83a99371424bd06c47bad2d5d89eb1a SHA-256: 801b78c4d39faa6de8801f39a25c2a6d7427bb18ef8abcad926c745c2d0b1e46
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic

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 that likely executes a PowerShell command suggests a downloader functionality. The document body's obfuscated content does not provide further clarity on the specific lure, but the overall pattern is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery methods.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765780-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765780-0
  • 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
822ca2bb5afccdd585dd9d4b3c04999cc0b411b7c4b99b6e373f1239fc1c4ef1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 26832 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.