Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3aa47fd0e69bb9a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

144.1 KB Created: 2020-09-29 22:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1cda90f6c2d4db93950ade0625b18b91 SHA-1: 133d0c9a736067d3122d176ed40f2b96971ab605 SHA-256: a3aa47fd0e69bb9abfdf3263e13b7d854f23cc07579e8e294a8930e6498d6143
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 VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro, specifically detected as Emotet, suggests the document is a delivery mechanism for this malware family. The macro likely executes a second-stage payload, as indicated by the auto-execution and CreateObject firings.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769425-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769425-0
  • 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
236c4e22a64ac61d77ecd3058e389c25a424fb288d33e5ff92abfd3f1b24ea8c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10347 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.