Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0614f4e21c1d63…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

186.5 KB Created: 2020-10-30 04:19:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 838ea16e1daaf01cea73274daa0bda60 SHA-1: f6cc294ea17911343cc9f19d15cf6356c80d4ddb SHA-256: cc0614f4e21c1d63a80e1ddecfd591353e15aa849f754be9d8b709cc6e9841c9
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro in the 'macros.bas' file, combined with the 'OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC' firing, suggests the macro is designed to execute automatically. This execution likely involves downloading and running a second-stage payload, a common characteristic of the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9785300-0
  • 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
f7e154fbc1687723523f4f201e3a1591c84897657fe14056a01af3060d347cbe
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17509 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.