Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e778b3db0521e8c8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

170.3 KB Created: 2020-09-16 21:06:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: a06a1c098b45eb0d39fda5e24b6ca495 SHA-1: 6be882bd46741a2912f6f629033c21e07e190da8 SHA-256: e778b3db0521e8c8b9f7429eeaafee991bca2bca736c3a9330e0252dda698f66
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 heuristic identifies this file as Emotet, a known downloader. The presence of a Document_Open macro, which uses CreateObject and p-code auto-execution, strongly indicates malicious intent. This macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic. The embedded URL, although marked as benign, is noted as part of the document text.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762248-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9762248-0
  • 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
399b09c8d74ca70c14382a3c60b3f313640ed0e229ce8a9c8a5d7036140d7260
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19085 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.