Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c550a3bcd444b1d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

86.2 KB Created: 2018-10-06 02:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-10-13
MD5: 8c312b7ad375d195ff989295879111a4 SHA-1: 974288841ad36cffaec0b364dc04f1fa895e6a75 SHA-256: 8c550a3bcd444b1d431e999a4aa41a6c18a9405295dc1469e283e84b359f9b6a
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0, indicating it is likely part of the Emotet malware family. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest a downloader functionality. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern where the document serves as a lure to download a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    olevba could not extract VBA macros (AssertionError); format-agnostic byte-level scans still ran. Likely legacy, encrypted, or malformed OLE/OOXML — re-scanning the same bytes will yield the same outcome.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.