Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c27e17fed16ef328…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

150.9 KB Created: 2020-09-29 22:21:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 0e356a58683ae052fe74103040a93b0c SHA-1: 99e911944337bb0a186e84dbf84150850507cffa SHA-256: c27e17fed16ef328b387d0c7fc967109548e73b05d59197e92896af0c0da3012
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically an auto-executing Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the macros.bas file, combined with the ClamAV signature, points to the Emotet family. The macro is designed to execute automatically when the document is opened, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769269-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769269-0
  • 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
6964ee7cb7e1027f31dcb7516e30ae7e28aa805d4dfa9e69e1986476c3bc52e7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10319 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.