Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf2fe0231f079d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

156.3 KB Created: 2020-12-30 07:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ea7ef32eced073287144fb13416e15d5 SHA-1: 30bd7dc67af3d23cfbf8a24578ef52710a204e81 SHA-256: cbf2fe0231f079d952671879c0b8c938067f5c5dea8bbd0e17508a3855416c64
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic for Applications T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to immediately execute code upon opening the document. While no specific download URLs were extracted, the overall pattern is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
9bf607663b8a2bf6d5409ee86f6e92f88c816fbcbd12854fba6197389a76ce81
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6567 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.