Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b337275d19213dac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.6 KB Created: 2020-10-20 21:25:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8e60dd99cfe434b96cdaacd4154a534b SHA-1: 93be2cf3c29faa1d4b1352c9c301006096e87650 SHA-256: b337275d19213dacfdddc08d854bde869161ed3d7f00e1e665cc7dd28a5dc602
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic and high-severity OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC firings strongly indicate malicious VBA macro execution. The presence of a Document_Open auto-exec macro and CreateObject calls suggests the script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9781039-0
  • 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
71f866a5571402330f425e0ab90aed18ba72c53599dc9c41907ca6e320ae2301
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18801 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.