Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1467d0424c3f9c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

175.6 KB Created: 2020-10-16 10:38:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 51b33d5e6b8c388e942c3e63c15c8cd7 SHA-1: d2d0c977563e5089eab2c83d869ba862d6cddf3d SHA-256: e1467d0424c3f9c0f0c251daa1d017c2689143732f431e65d372f599d7c39843
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies the file as Emotet. The presence of a Document_Open VBA macro, combined with CreateObject calls and p-code auto-execution, strongly indicates that the macro is designed to run automatically when the document is opened. This macro is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, a common Emotet tactic. The document body content appears to be obfuscated or malformed, providing no direct clues to the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Trojan.Emotet-9778443-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Trojan.Emotet-9778443-1
  • 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
dae34bf6e418fa0d8b9b1311becc27775cd875aa2c1a1dc0c8de66f7f57fbc42
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15342 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.