Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e25c57f78caa61c0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

171.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 05:39:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c0072fc40a13a5aa1d46061eb5d1c2db SHA-1: c5d4662c6de1c2dc11ccb1af9c90be9ce120cd0b SHA-256: e25c57f78caa61c0a27f7f7877e82bbd48ba6fc490aa904b851bbf4b7a42ac5b
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. ClamAV detection confirms this as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9784225-0. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact and the Emotet family attribution strongly suggest this document is a downloader designed to fetch and execute a second-stage payload.

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
4ba1afe08d79409e1497ca07456a809cf749d23c9ed8d7cdfc9c80ecc4d07df6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15890 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.