Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b511dd16bdcc5bbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

201.1 KB Created: 2020-12-22 06:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 68934e23ec4f2c54841c054a7f2bb172 SHA-1: 93fc73a79cf9e9d9a25da453c825799a2e647155 SHA-256: b511dd16bdcc5bbe4beae436b89a3b681d1c8130169e0211b4c8ae63c44276ea
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-executing macro, suggests the document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
87b72d633bd79d3d21c1246dbcc11e62ebdefc06e96dee650ec7c8e181386692
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16335 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.