Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abb8ffcd2513ca5d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

87.5 KB Created: 2018-10-06 02:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2018-11-13
MD5: 76ee7ee07fccd95826327d56e1abc51d SHA-1: 2891d01ae88503f5fbf6c76ddbf2ba7dec03b4d4 SHA-256: abb8ffcd2513ca5d78c0b2c013bdf6c904199ad81330e47d36bf4d549de4e655
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0, indicating it is likely part of the Emotet malware family. Although VBA macros could not be extracted due to an unsupported format, the presence of an embedded URL and the ClamAV signature strongly suggest a downloader functionality. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern where the document serves as a lure to download a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826542-0
  • Unsupported Office format for VBA extraction info OFFICE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED
    The Analyzer could not extract VBA macros: the document may be legacy, encrypted or malformed.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

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