Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9263c083ab944b92…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

161.6 KB Created: 2020-09-25 11:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c1d4b4fdab81ee58eaf0547c923bc651 SHA-1: 996874231c8a37246f8af9c7b0f84ad5e5b7d2a3 SHA-256: 9263c083ab944b928f26ff755452523911a15b846408b1350d3d42587c56daa5
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an auto-execution attempt. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet, a known downloader. The DOC BODY appears to be obfuscated or malformed, but the presence of VBA macros and the Emotet detection strongly suggest the intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload. No specific URLs or commands were directly extractable from the malformed DOC BODY, but the ClamAV detection is highly reliable.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9767804-1
  • 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
426aca538f654441d66e245a00bfc928dacf37832bbf946df52799fa3650ecb1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 24489 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.