Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d29ec48f52dafe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

173.2 KB Created: 2020-09-30 10:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 5235f0b85d41c399a7479d0fd0b397df SHA-1: a56753149ee9d622566f2e77ff5d31b3d9621a16 SHA-256: d1d29ec48f52dafe3baabff310d309ee7de8c725618d5db63307636e5ff68f4b
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 CreateObject and auto-execution via Document_Open, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of obfuscated VBA code and the specific ClamAV signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0' point to the Emotet family. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
e574dc9e5be70b9e64389cc5809b4b9a70fc86bbb2ebeadb9aa3663111f6add5		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10540 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 28 Chr/ChrW string-construction calls. Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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