Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f088235116204966…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

158.5 KB
MD5: 9c9e2c41143038feb055efec3f36e001 SHA-1: a2f14c943d3a43d230ba98bee682641893da2eb6 SHA-256: f088235116204966078061b58718b29a5d7025fef5153cfbdcad870c27852069
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a Document_Open macro suggests an attempt to automatically run code upon opening the document. While no specific download URL was extracted, the overall pattern is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism of using macro-enabled documents to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed0121-9822961-0
  • 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
9b820b2402def2f5ee5a5a3a44ae4d03778e1b1e351b3b609e3682fdcff76601
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13140 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.