Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6780dd989cd52d8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

159.3 KB Created: 2020-09-17 04:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3c1913332457560822c9b6906b4c58fa SHA-1: 88a3bd8d73061f24977342e1f8fa3f50947d80b6 SHA-256: d6780dd989cd52d8f8db998fedd1bdc4d5b52c738e0850db64c96310eddd7c1a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_MACROS, OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA code execution. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an auto-executing payload designed to download and run a second-stage threat. The ClamAV signature specifically names Emotet, a known downloader family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762517-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762517-0
  • 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
991adc1ef45638c65bfb92a710fcbce350fe87d4c8d6f02dc16d9130cc12b6e6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20616 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.