Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee60daca1e8ddffb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

146.9 KB Created: 2020-10-15 22:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 86ac6300a5b60fe2944516b6956fd204 SHA-1: 22746e59b6f42b687a1d86220346c8037c8a40f4 SHA-256: ee60daca1e8ddffb2203d13742d1a4d972dbf382df6fc3b3fe493a9b1ed2b964
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 a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open auto-exec macro, which is a strong indicator of Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to likely download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, further supporting this classification.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9778182-0
  • 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
6189db9948861e29e96fe9b9a8fe8805241b5cf8d84003c60bcf2d6c97469216		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12683 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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