Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed410e106fe3f9f8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

167.3 KB Created: 2020-09-14 11:57:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 60c416cb06b28f5285f41784d3af458a SHA-1: 8789aad61a0ebac24a8bdeb9907ecaec074a68b3 SHA-256: ed410e106fe3f9f8bedec883afe4b7b0d0dea3b449ad26fa6f41aa69c0a78f80
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection explicitly names this as Emotet. The extracted DOC BODY, though heavily corrupted, contains what appears to be obfuscated PowerShell commands, likely for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The presence of the 'macros.bas' artifact further supports the macro-based execution.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762269-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762269-0
  • 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
8a39fc8d6eec119bccb9074c742cbab236c89f429d1a306c2818d1568d873603
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25223 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.