Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b38113131f303cc4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

159.0 KB
MD5: 97db49ef98ea5f5ce258354b6b80f52e SHA-1: 3646a22968593036dc65b8703e68682421f72bde SHA-256: b38113131f303cc48327974f45b9a62234f5a9a05922c0fb2c8e5abbe34a9bc3
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0' strongly suggests this is an Emotet downloader variant. The macro likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common tactic for Emotet.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0
  • 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
8a462910f65fc057e90c745908924da5be2f067f062e45a5cb003ffd787ee4a6		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13488 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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