Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b131abadbdd99b90…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

132.4 KB Created: 2020-09-30 05:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 79baff506503ca7019949613182d0d4b SHA-1: ad09b21ee9dc3d66c393f58d1b1d13d8150cb90f SHA-256: b131abadbdd99b90888c049f0e4ff59936adb011886d570d1652cef7c209c4d1
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample was detected by ClamAV as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769541-0', indicating a known Emotet downloader variant. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'CreateObject' for execution. The obfuscated document body text does not provide direct clues to the lure, but the combination of heuristics and the ClamAV signature strongly suggests Emotet's typical behavior of downloading and executing further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769541-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769541-0
  • 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
b2b495189d2eb2b89dce9719098105d933c1125fa9413aec5a7ff49e851b8844		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10579 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 28 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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