Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7678263136c72ea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

149.2 KB Created: 2020-09-28 14:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ff03d3b4f16feac49f2940c637d8b05c SHA-1: 8b2792693260f4c212fd0dce3a19f2a0513facfb SHA-256: c7678263136c72eae4c2d6509a5b7b56e6a1737087b40b9757c0bc424b627fd5
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this file as Emotet. The presence of a Document_Open macro, along with CreateObject and p-code auto-execution firings, strongly indicates that the VBA code within the document is designed to run automatically when the document is opened. This macro is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, a common tactic for Emotet. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to the user-facing lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768663-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9768663-0
  • 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
52573b116f951816e527b23fd5cfdfc578caca117ddeb459f950d0953f709442
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6643 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.