Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e316d35c49df65…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

132.8 KB Created: 2020-10-14 07:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0aaf3c25fb11f23e830e9804d676f7fc SHA-1: 819d8f9f62e25ad2a657f3899dd6b5ef0847e36b SHA-256: 93e316d35c49df65d217b117f01a6072b15c1baf2c5330ee09a24cb5f53a9ec8
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an auto-execution attempt. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet malware. The presence of VBA macros and the auto-execution heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9777996-0
  • 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
826434d3a30f8115a2b858063b6ee79ded3d3145d977887f7c2b014f2947746b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9581 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.