Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b884d8f1ff5d3040…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

173.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 05:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7411aeb36d2d42cc8ff6ba04e29f80fa SHA-1: c9abecf5b85e41d1a94e71022ae44779baced270 SHA-256: b884d8f1ff5d30400aca73ac034944032ad0e0e7bd403f0b8d010ccd7c766e18
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in 'macros.bas' and the detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet' point to Emotet family activity. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0
  • 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
4ba1afe08d79409e1497ca07456a809cf749d23c9ed8d7cdfc9c80ecc4d07df6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15890 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.