Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbb06db34f51c53d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

171.0 KB Created: 2020-10-21 13:56:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ee4464dc2b175231388d2bdfdb6781a6 SHA-1: b9a2b4af69761baec8a94b915057031680bd26af SHA-256: bbb06db34f51c53da6ae7059ea01e98f90c45e21de62c91bd299adad0b13944b
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 a malicious macro dropper. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The ClamAV signature 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0' directly attributes this sample to the Emotet family, which is known for its macro-based delivery of further malicious payloads. The document body content appears to be obfuscated or encrypted, preventing a direct analysis of its lure, but the macro execution is the primary threat.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetUpdate1020-9778523-0
  • 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
113d36c64715b3a3694b52821b832bd3a24df7013a1eebeaaceb4571875cbc4c		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 23319 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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