Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be4589b5f647c7b9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.1 KB Created: 2020-09-16 18:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 903d7c8a42cb56e23156312d7235ee1f SHA-1: 9e73db67eb8818637fe45d615e63e9cc92e7e0b5 SHA-256: be4589b5f647c7b97fdc399757c263c8fbe549218e25eea82148ad48f7fa5017
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection explicitly identifies the sample as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0'. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro that utilizes CreateObject. This strongly indicates the document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762284-0
  • 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
c8eacd47a01532c076db7a43a0d927f95cb78ca92fb9fc841101993b58287d9b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19132 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.