Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d06c09f94e925a8e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

253.4 KB Created: 2020-01-17 07:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 58a44f20e51ea1ca10766885290b5ce7 SHA-1: f6d0508e9b051af39b92ef84b9a2458d9b1638c9 SHA-256: d06c09f94e925a8e78c41e925aedc250ebee28853d29c1e1d4634502c9991ff0
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7544766-0', indicating it is likely an Emotet dropper. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that uses 'GetObject' for execution. This suggests the document is designed to automatically run malicious code when opened, a common tactic for Emotet to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7544766-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-7544766-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • 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
a4505d9aa099025ee94bf9c9577d50ea15859cdc5bb7868a58be88c1b6831ca1
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7882 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 18 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls.