Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb41eb35d1ed5c56…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

194.1 KB Created: 2020-09-22 04:18:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ac560e8c6a27d0b8b78f55ace2990196 SHA-1: c231f33c1c6988844c2292878a511ae789cf8394 SHA-256: eb41eb35d1ed5c564815f19ad38456d5e3d16d8e75a2e67a7faeec4eb63b7985
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is a malicious OLE document containing a large VBA macro. Heuristics indicate the presence of a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject and GetObject, suggesting it attempts to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV signature specifically identifies it as Emotet. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9764756-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9764756-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
3b0af88f4dd9c23a17bbdbbca50e89a637a2364695c54b84b34b6c26baade961
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 19032 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.