Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a4e1b38da2c7b6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

167.9 KB Created: 2021-01-05 17:50:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 8ece549d4e6adf0f86fbdc10a7adac47 SHA-1: 963b900221c7f206bacae0ce8db21ab74a5d793c SHA-256: e2a4e1b38da2c7b66dba005e8a788dfde3a5906f24dabd9d5ffd2568a5ba5953
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, specifically an auto-executing Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The presence of the 'EmotetRed' signature in the ClamAV detection further supports the Emotet family attribution. The macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
4ad47f06387c2fe26b40af7c5c3febabd490580f16728c81acf291150b2fb0bb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 10757 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.