Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bceb1b46f7099731…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

131.9 KB Created: 2020-09-28 15:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d5fb9b2c8e640646d92dda9f61e6619c SHA-1: 9f07ea8a6b017cc09abe0a3611343a11dec90238 SHA-256: bceb1b46f7099731622c35f1e66fe7519b41666875e98060735db9253302753b
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro activity. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common pattern for Emotet to execute its initial payload. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet, increasing confidence in the family attribution. No specific URLs or scripts were extracted to detail further payload delivery or execution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768661-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768661-0
  • 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
2ce77a90790088f293710a707301ae69bfebe17386d7804fba58a5e382e47c64
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6657 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.