Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a5967a00ab6727…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

161.0 KB Created: 2020-09-15 23:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 44e7488aaaf0847e54ef9615a371ff50 SHA-1: e0e21d0350db6cdbd6a76288b2cb3b03421e8fa1 SHA-256: e1a5967a00ab672740cd0427e38e76bd3368a4c53bc5a79d708fd2eb680f9cfa
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded VBA script, partially reconstructed, appears to construct a PowerShell command to download and execute a second-stage payload. This aligns with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762287-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762287-0
  • 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
2463ca5944a3498304fe918280f5b6583e6e8da36e1a3b40714097a3ead5b81e
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25024 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.