Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f168ef97aa8cb399…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

199.0 KB Created: 2020-10-21 13:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: ec271c3aa3f3a370d6e2348015215cd8 SHA-1: 63c1862233752a3710a1199b0ae6827d0f48f1ce SHA-256: f168ef97aa8cb399a6f327fb6a301f7ae5e115c7ed1ad5c8b59819663bebd7e2
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a malicious VBA macro, specifically a Document_Open auto-execution macro, which is designed to create objects and execute code. This behavior is characteristic of droppers that download and execute further malicious payloads. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The macro's execution of CreateObject and its auto-execution nature indicate a high likelihood of it initiating a download and execution chain.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetiBlueUpdate1020-9780531-0
  • 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
95eb3c5d035a5c49033717199bc50764986e3b5ab99bba0bc56e259ec5a3061f		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 23248 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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