Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd998a59bb0b75d0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

196.8 KB Created: 2020-09-21 22:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 209b0cecc0ede02ec2b8e58feae8f90b SHA-1: 33e27091a324a54a508cfa23f71befa1aaf72778 SHA-256: bd998a59bb0b75d07938e1029daa924b403fe978916d651be170097274746b9f
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject and GetObject calls, indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet. The macros are designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Emotet. No specific URLs or executable files were extracted, but the ClamAV signature provides a strong indicator.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
3f69d910c7ab65b68002c6115856f94d0a2fe7883066824f7d890ec0735d30db
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19084 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.