Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade7ee034ccce020…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

189.5 KB Created: 2020-10-21 08:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 83db120f270dc002de36d9084099dc34 SHA-1: 2f51698c8e2387723a8f20544f1b36da0d0166a4 SHA-256: ade7ee034ccce02004ebcf42088a9174448fe99ee93da5cc8c7a34fc42b5d7d2
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is designed to create objects and execute code. ClamAV detection confirms this is a dropper associated with the Emotet family. The macro likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, indicated by the 'Ingress Tool Transfer' technique. The embedded URL, though benign, suggests a delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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
1495f7c7ced0d5d67a50de030db1d404fcece38568f93b06e33d3100a17ee340
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20761 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.