Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 923ca0717a7b54fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

85.2 KB Created: 2018-10-06 02:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-05-10
MD5: 072fae1539d664d851a5048c810e957b SHA-1: c01eccd5f851976368ee7b43ddedb41ac6165c22 SHA-256: 923ca0717a7b54fc6ce97594198e1d9a56da8aa7714da47c3dafb2b564efa862
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
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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)

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