Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d9758b91793141a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

178.5 KB Created: 2020-10-26 07:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1090ba6060f3a3c199520cd4e93fccda SHA-1: 55ad0779496e6773a652b9554eb103bd58093255 SHA-256: 8d9758b91793141af53b80e5d86bfe97c41e48a92c61a431c802cea0853a6c20
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

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 named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family, known for its downloader capabilities. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains patterns consistent with macro execution. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784039-0
  • 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
d0242cccf1fc69ef1bfc48b1645bc10ec37741bf93e2efd542678ac22956a298		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15455 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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