Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92dc665b7b2d60b5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.3 KB Created: 2020-10-16 10:17:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cfc84c42098131c8e1a9b3e572bfa058 SHA-1: 52880305ecf0466cbb65f1ff671b65febbd36772 SHA-256: 92dc665b7b2d60b59bd68c238a5afc7a39185bd6e0909a003a0a25bab691bedc
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 explicitly identifies the sample as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778520-0'. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro that utilizes CreateObject. This indicates the document is designed to run malicious code upon opening, consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristics strongly suggest a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778520-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778520-0
  • 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
d61826c134f7c008e59a413c892ffd79c11195763d747a6092f6a3ad25ed6af3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15346 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.