Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85ba13ee16a5ff34…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

150.7 KB Created: 2020-09-29 07:27:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: fa69c6e5e6bb548d0504d2f56323a54d SHA-1: e588ce991c0da28bae7eabb36746a71108a6ef73 SHA-256: 85ba13ee16a5ff34d7cd00ef3c2b0b66b42a35a096a004ef4420420711e4855c
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769096-0. Static analysis detected a VBA macro within the document, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject. This indicates the macro is designed to execute code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact further supports the macro-based execution vector.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769096-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769096-0
  • 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
7fe684c304685628252d7c0111d3e33f34436ae7810b3dde5f2aa07edc7bb621
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8166 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.