Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9211d9fdc8cf882…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

196.8 KB Created: 2020-09-24 13:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 283aff9e5b8c9ec051f6e36aff49d9ee SHA-1: 24f55dfc2b69f3033e366a704bd38a7ea6541912 SHA-256: b9211d9fdc8cf882f69237754fd387b887bd80a07f2abe12c2f687dd04ec3ad4
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, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to immediately execute malicious code upon opening the document. The obfuscated document body content, while not directly readable, likely contains further obfuscated commands or payloads. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' specifically points to Emotet family activity, which commonly uses macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
a837a74c15cb3b2b06d70805c30f06a3d350fde6faccbab7be73edc42a69bb80		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25402 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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