Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e300848327d769…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

212.1 KB Created: 2020-12-22 18:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 00ab1f375e1d08fb1e31bec6f63ffc68 SHA-1: 3bf44fc6f2276f6e4bca3427c346caaa91714833 SHA-256: d1e300848327d7696fbf00743224fd79437b7bb6ca239d65be7c53fec6c0aa95
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro that likely executes code points to a downloader functionality, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior of fetching and running additional payloads. The obfuscated document body text does not provide further context on the lure, but the technical indicators are clear.

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
8962e4bb9060366f196bbaa9086a3c9775784f792d9952a2d2a973cddd73b89c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15531 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.