Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a71a31b415de755…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

221.2 KB Created: 2020-09-18 06:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f563c5abf03333d142f387019060bc89 SHA-1: 7c63e7bf184dfcfaca1a4f35e3befb27b74ca634 SHA-256: 8a71a31b415de755bdbbbb231e79978f70d94b2a8bed5f73dad5fcff6f735b16
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. Critical heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' auto-execution macro that uses 'CreateObject'. This pattern is typical for Emotet droppers, which are designed to download and execute further malicious payloads. No document body text was available for analysis, but the macro behavior is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0
  • 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
88c8a6d475859011dad3993e76e09a2a592ce706e1bde139ef1cfc941be7102d		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20707 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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