Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96d3dd3adfc881a3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

146.6 KB Created: 2020-10-15 22:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 46a004c89240e0642f8e7519422740b7 SHA-1: 6ef897b3257f247db8137622d5bacd2cffc47522 SHA-256: 96d3dd3adfc881a3e319be6e4be17e3ae2bd16905cbfaaa0449a6555c9fe5ff4
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 a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The macro utilizes CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly identifies the file as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0', strongly indicating the Emotet family. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to the user-facing lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0
  • 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
6189db9948861e29e96fe9b9a8fe8805241b5cf8d84003c60bcf2d6c97469216		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12683 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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