Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c079737afb3eb5b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.0 KB Created: 2020-10-20 12:48:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9d2f9279d3f1a7ba910bc182ae75da48 SHA-1: 1eb4979035aa7cb61bca6bdefc364ff9e5be1022 SHA-256: 9c079737afb3eb5b8f0bf171052b84b12b1fe03fc0a1687968d82a62b123417c
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 heuristic identifies this file as Emotet, a known downloader. The presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, strongly suggests the document is designed to run malicious code upon opening. The heuristic OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ indicates the script likely attempts to create objects to facilitate its malicious actions, such as downloading a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780849-0
  • 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
a791bb7ba5242dbbc595d3114d3368d96d9feda91ba232c650f7097f210ce92c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17778 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.