Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69c21e4a5c5a3aa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

187.6 KB Created: 2020-09-29 13:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 992bc34a4700e9bbe2e6e04166fbfce3 SHA-1: cddf1e4e449917c25e04884e6867843700c6fbe8 SHA-256: c69c21e4a5c5a3aab97f8686c02ea866d7334da7c2d7d5509ad1b4ebc56ec006
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes obfuscated code via CreateObject. This is a strong indicator of Emotet activity. The ClamAV detection name further supports this attribution. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its lure, but the macro execution is the primary malicious behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0
  • 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
3466a25e0ec8edf0a3d6ff61e66e8183246c716be04ca7cccaa39032367b5dbf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10303 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.