Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4cb3d56a4e049d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.0 KB Created: 2020-10-16 18:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: c2663b4e50da008c94b5b4cd12a20c2c SHA-1: 87feb536ec557a27e42daa614192347e470167f0 SHA-256: ea4cb3d56a4e049d8d0e7d1e30ff96c6b4fd216860a4c48ed248940702f3b7ac
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN, OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ, and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC strongly indicate malicious VBA macro execution. The presence of a Document_Open macro, combined with CreateObject calls, suggests the typical Emotet behavior of downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, but the technical indicators are sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9778591-0
  • 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
fcaa38ed96b1b218739bafc5403c2803ab83f37a0565afb297027068f0a0ee86
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 15517 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.