Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b7b60825eb2ba0f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.2 KB Created: 2020-09-15 19:31:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: fba7978b1437e8d21701336397b7595d SHA-1: d1f6ec1622238b6dd1f5c4c87265c41ef4f0e80c SHA-256: 9b7b60825eb2ba0fbacb8419b73d618db0a10d1e8b7e45a946aa8afd771038ef
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro activity. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject suggests the execution of code upon opening the document. The ClamAV signature specifically names this as an Emotet downloader. The embedded URL, although marked as benign, is often used in conjunction with malicious payloads.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9761754-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9761754-0
  • 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
75714e73d3e8750b3760209a7997fccc8b6d96f31b59fa1d20ad2b0ef4583864
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.