Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccad29eac2b2a4c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.4 KB Created: 2020-10-16 18:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6192ee5bab1f535098d64772ce526c54 SHA-1: 188b78b0350a32a702d2c8cce492cb5ac9ef9948 SHA-256: ccad29eac2b2a4c03fc1c9a9ac36544345fb0a5f454746c05dbb5f02d4d53210
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-exec macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact further confirms the macro execution. The primary attack vector is likely macro-based execution to download and run a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0
  • 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
fcaa38ed96b1b218739bafc5403c2803ab83f37a0565afb297027068f0a0ee86
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15517 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.