Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9ed45fc90ae166…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 13:32:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 38bfe5449d7341a9171fe91014707c82 SHA-1: 9b15f40811bd170557861b0ecb6578ed919d7ff9 SHA-256: de9ed45fc90ae166716a1703044069bea57d72376086f43b0711dd7b35ffa18a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, indicating an attempt to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The embedded URL, though benign according to reputation, is often used in conjunction with malicious payloads. The obfuscated document body text is likely part of the lure or payload delivery mechanism.

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.