Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de08fede21ce8121…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

202.9 KB Created: 2020-12-21 13:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: d9b07ec1fe11eb9d5d173cb4eadbc0dd SHA-1: 9dddd1ebbfba8a8137c6451a8e054bfea0e9b10d SHA-256: de08fede21ce81212d7f44e7a4f29accba764a1891121def0aee917c4384d68f
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0'. Critical heuristics indicate a VBA auto-execution macro ('Document_Open') that uses 'CreateObject', a common technique for downloading and executing further payloads. The obfuscated document body text suggests a lure to open the file, likely to trigger the malicious macro. The presence of VBA macros and the auto-execution pattern strongly suggest Emotet's typical delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-10024800-0
  • 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
2b9ea9508201ca52b68627b510c681a978bf300b4bdc4157831522ad5544bdf3
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10348 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.