Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e70eea5dcae2b820…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

141.8 KB Created: 2020-09-29 09:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 9d4acf45810f9fc69db62fecb337a2fd SHA-1: 3b3c83e4eb021ccced784816875eef1f1ca5a5a7 SHA-256: e70eea5dcae2b820b19bc58b794ff2b23ec6a26d8fa07f05171b1acb8585fefd
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of obfuscated VBA macros suggests the execution of a downloader. The file's SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769137-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9769137-0
  • 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
2f5b3223d32b6b79c027453efef3c5410c27df5205b9cb2b32dd9a1e0304e007		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8132 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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