Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c2f38fb69c1d08…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

154.4 KB Created: 2020-10-19 09:55:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 3db1d711bb909c116ae7918696e57291 SHA-1: f293eba007087f1be6544583abd0c8c777a772cc SHA-256: e5c2f38fb69c1d08c777d659aa676e7c01f5bd164c481284992eb1e96cabdd7a
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 auto-exec macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The macro's use of CreateObject and p-code execution further supports this. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, providing no clear user-facing lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780434-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9780434-0
  • 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
1480f6f3dc12ae5544443e21682a29de409fc914bcdbfb39f5c72e71174c3bfb
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15487 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.