Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb505678e0c2debe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

180.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 15:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f791a85332a964f35131d0fdf9f788e2 SHA-1: 7940a191720cd1248695e9f8ebae850b34ff9e3a SHA-256: cb505678e0c2debe5c5b4647af5940e08ffbb2d7a1c73de09136d64560cc0696
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 VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in 'macros.bas' and the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing confirm the use of auto-executing VBA code. This pattern is characteristic of Emotet, which often uses macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

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
041f40187eb07e2256edf903ca2aa818eaff7dc6fcfd4bf44314c9f8902df953
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16848 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.