Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8398f9c5f37ef055…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

197.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 07:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d9baba547fbfebc81863cbd6efb374c1 SHA-1: 9549a8564b79899c3947a1dd7cf0ce47bafc7cef SHA-256: 8398f9c5f37ef0558a84d839ee7058340351a71fe4cf26d2590652a5a66857f8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a specific Emotet signature. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro that uses CreateObject, a common technique for Emotet. The VBA script, though obfuscated, likely aims to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Emotet's behavior. The embedded URL is benign and not considered an IOC.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762400-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762400-0
  • 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
7c58c4b09e28ace19eb6117ae115fc2b8ebe509e6804a2a36cc1706dcd36fda5		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25351 bytes

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