Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0d0157ad106f604…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

132.7 KB Created: 2020-10-14 18:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d7de6cb3c8e089eb90c9c6d40c1572ac SHA-1: 0bf7f0e82727876a67704885bdda5d36b87c17ad SHA-256: b0d0157ad106f6049b8478bd74d5363467c025cf3f7864ec21ad37c30391eef9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious document. The presence of a VBA macro suggests the intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet, a known downloader.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778099-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778099-0
  • 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
9cd2d3ba8695f6e0f808949bc048a972d682fc01cbdb8fdeecb22374d5d7cc37
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9421 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.