Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0d591b48fb52038…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

182.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 09:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5eef1943474e6062ac08dc8568c90c46 SHA-1: 82291ddd392848c3f501c7fac2fbdfcbe25e01bb SHA-256: c0d591b48fb52038f0ce62cdfab26768c954de572ce4bc02ae28a253eb81cf08
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 and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate a malicious macro downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject is a common Emotet delivery technique. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet, increasing confidence in the family attribution. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of VBA macros and the specific ClamAV detection are sufficient for this assessment.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0
  • 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
d266e0e433b4f1ca206b8db182ee793bd3229a389f65ad6b52e9aace0436fd0a
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15938 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.