Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf5b0482bc2cdc0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

197.9 KB Created: 2020-09-21 22:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8fffea916a73bd4617ade4b226a2f5f4 SHA-1: be21bc65b958e93734b7ae08402a51815199a76c SHA-256: cbf5b0482bc2cdc04d1f4ffa6c39d4517ef6793289339305a64f7820553bdeac
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject and GetObject calls. This is indicative of Emotet malware, which commonly uses such techniques to download and execute further payloads. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, reinforcing this classification.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9765425-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
3f69d910c7ab65b68002c6115856f94d0a2fe7883066824f7d890ec0735d30db
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19084 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.