Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e575ae8cbd4ec306…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

260.6 KB
MD5: 11a491d8dafbdf96e9db9b5eeab55ef5 SHA-1: d02e2e4a4632c873a39ef8365d0f97953e937663 SHA-256: e575ae8cbd4ec306246f0ac64447c9bb8d72349b9ff05b944f8fc7748d38ea02
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains a malicious VBA macro that automatically executes upon opening the document. This macro utilizes CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for Emotet. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

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
b6798bb5311b4f2b692b304112e80c31df30b22e53307915d8ecb36c818b404c
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 18585 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.