Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d11e0d61ffbe21f3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

150.7 KB Created: 2020-09-18 17:14:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7ae496595c485fca27d4c9a6b6e6b0c3 SHA-1: 9f4fb812bf9bce8ca6ba5440132af98b066c4a7c SHA-256: d11e0d61ffbe21f3332d5c924ca98eb451fcdeb3f1b732a43f3fbaf00360b103
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763589-0. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro that uses CreateObject. This strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The Emotet family is known for such downloader capabilities.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763589-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763589-0
  • 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
96b83a59c729d4e2629caf4138babfc6cae62a32b23cb8c4d357b221daf4ba67
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20042 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.