Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4453e80df68baf9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

209.5 KB Created: 2020-10-30 18:34:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: cc19bc7649d79091d1eea44b96adf5c4 SHA-1: 7f0c90ef9838e3cca1343582314bd0c224308a6a SHA-256: e4453e80df68baf994356340dd82940f63286fe1359632b3ac16a4af94939709
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to immediately execute code upon opening the document. While no specific download URLs were extracted, the overall pattern is consistent with Emotet's typical behavior of downloading and executing further stages.

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
035247075e717030c87eb1e7a35ad2ad2c8145cc7110257c5be024c0ffb99fb6
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 17340 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.