Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e35a527b86b1c3fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

194.8 KB Created: 2020-09-22 04:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c3895b17137fb303094fec1f8ef3c577 SHA-1: fafdc93702bda38dcf977ee0022486f4a822ba90 SHA-256: e35a527b86b1c3fdbea50f69eb963671a8161fa14a86b2a2d00731486e17690a
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Doc.Malware.Emotet-9764756-0, indicating it belongs to the Emotet family. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject and GetObject calls. These indicate the macro is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The document body is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9764756-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9764756-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
3b0af88f4dd9c23a17bbdbbca50e89a637a2364695c54b84b34b6c26baade961
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19032 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.