Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b150b1d59cc6d59e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

162.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 04:35:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f11da8771a1e2415145134085391991a SHA-1: f3b23f95ff674d95e538d2ef9db531259574ae77 SHA-256: b150b1d59cc6d59ed5cdcb00befc368fbb1ab9da843cb995644d91ac47a9743d
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a malicious OLE document containing a large VBA macro. The presence of a Document_Open macro, CreateObject calls, and VBA p-code auto-execution strongly indicates malicious intent. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9763318-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family. The macro is designed to execute upon opening, a common tactic for Emotet to download and run further malicious payloads.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9763318-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9763318-0
  • 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
b0a943f27b229afc0d61565177642c9be098ce97924ee703fbff1ec25a707666
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 21996 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.