Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aea45852884f91cf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

242.7 KB Created: 2020-09-17 23:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d053541a201f728c6fc702cabc44978e SHA-1: ff6cb88c23d32e79dba09301e312a955b86b6eb4 SHA-256: aea45852884f91cfffc305af1e347c40f8abe34d69c2b59d564deeff54eea1a2
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_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate a malicious macro downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common pattern for Emotet. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet, increasing confidence in the family attribution. No specific URLs or executable payloads were directly extracted, but the macro's intent is clear: to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
  • 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
bbb069e7ba4108064d6782bf06897cd403c434c793526e3567eb29507661c241
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21939 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.