Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ac9f3c4611c3c3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 13:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: dad231d14c8bbe5a84c0f9762dadf843 SHA-1: 848be04771fe429630744421874c7493c39bd0a2 SHA-256: d2ac9f3c4611c3c30c8a2bad8bee52f08ecf51e25b4a79774c50188c9b3f1def
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 explicitly identifies this file as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. The presence of a Document_Open macro, CreateObject calls, and VBA p-code auto-execution further supports this. The macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet delivery technique. The obfuscated document body text appears to be a distraction or part of the lure, not directly indicative of the malicious action.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0
  • 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
aaf531f7a5bc5489efc2142934ae4807c7a8fc52a02b1483f9210c80918c01e7
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16228 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.