Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01664c0e8eb5300…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

133.7 KB Created: 2020-10-14 07:01:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 544e8863b93a7e252f96d477e9516ebc SHA-1: 0f548302b9b5c2176d4b899ba71468562a93cd2b SHA-256: a01664c0e8eb5300423e2515263d5ed8970667afb7fc31d8ec9e43fdfbeafffd
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-executing macro, which is a strong indicator of Emotet activity. The macro uses CreateObject to execute code, and the ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet. The presence of the 'macros.bas' file further supports this. The macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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.