Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae110aff8b887791…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

142.3 KB Created: 2020-10-15 06:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8d5983348062ac407b9f6019e4852442 SHA-1: c588d10d763feb11581eea19e97351a1ea5d702c SHA-256: ae110aff8b887791c7211b216d8ec78343861f5c5e790643ba54f95431734b63
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 OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA code execution upon opening the document. The Document_Open macro and CreateObject call are characteristic of Emotet's downloader functionality, which typically fetches and executes further stages. The embedded URL, though benign in reputation, is noted as part of the document's structure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778165-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778165-0
  • 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
aa3822bbb419da819c0009ca2a50458591c2a917d376ecb16e3e87f227973bcb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10774 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.