Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d68b772804de699f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

188.7 KB Created: 2020-09-29 13:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3c597b223e4c9ada1ab56b38c690ab0d SHA-1: 2085969df273b9d7d1535a8c3dc8e4acef0194b2 SHA-256: d68b772804de699fd2f1abb0735015fbe96bb1e7d89c9a1358ba210724b39b52
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including an auto-executing Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of the 'Emotet' family in the ClamAV signature further supports this classification. The document body appears to be obfuscated script content, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9769343-0
  • 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
3466a25e0ec8edf0a3d6ff61e66e8183246c716be04ca7cccaa39032367b5dbf
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10303 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.