Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0daab150f4d5459…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

157.4 KB Created: 2020-12-29 11:42:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 07bd28bace53b7bcda30036925ad3274 SHA-1: 71809acd65a7953f981c9db69f870a80ab09fe23 SHA-256: f0daab150f4d54590f56fad8649a2cde155996a98589e397d90987d096957439
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, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of VBA macros suggests the document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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
4decf398c6c557c9e9008d6dd07df522ebcb7ba81df1d8dcdb3101c55b3caf95
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.