Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda27917f584d95b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

132.6 KB Created: 2020-10-14 19:03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: bb36acac164bf4e7c448f7a74aefb2d9 SHA-1: 1fb8b35177f3cfeb1de407fa3b1620b21d4c9721 SHA-256: eda27917f584d95bfd39a1eb5032b7b195bd5fb826ad84dcf0bbace5c461c366
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that executes upon opening. Heuristics indicate a CreateObject call and p-code execution, suggesting the macro is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection confirms this as Emotet, a known downloader family. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, providing no clear user-facing lure.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778091-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778091-0
  • 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
35ba581a7d07c242723817cd679240b29046cc2a7f4485862374591738596dda		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 9454 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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