Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6bd87fbe016b6aa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

190.1 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 92d38719224b8cec1186bad6d4f04ec2 SHA-1: 3e189ebf57e03bacd2e25494ef5e4f32049254d7 SHA-256: e6bd87fbe016b6aa6adef6d0b44f84f03fac8c48fff4f7f50631787c51b36eba
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0'. Static analysis detected VBA macros, specifically a 'Document_Open' macro that utilizes 'CreateObject', indicating an auto-execution mechanism. This strongly suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Emotet. The presence of VBA macros and the specific ClamAV detection name point towards the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9763588-0
  • 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
439e57830647c2aa4289de5e25d2759440b9e1601599acc03def2897db1f3da9		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20114 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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