Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e8b16cacfbb845…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

260.5 KB
MD5: 4dd0ac494d26468fc1e8472921689836 SHA-1: 2536344e30ca5c813af8ea7b1e2803368cc2b336 SHA-256: 93e8b16cacfbb8457fed832ae2ef52797f09e3e852a03f043d365ac83013a71b
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1140 Deobfuscate or Obfuscate

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common technique for initiating malicious activity. The presence of CreateObject calls and the ClamAV detection signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' strongly indicate that this document acts as a downloader for further malicious payloads, consistent with Emotet's behavior. The obfuscated document body content does not provide specific user-facing lures but the macro execution is the primary attack vector.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
b6798bb5311b4f2b692b304112e80c31df30b22e53307915d8ecb36c818b404c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18585 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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