Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7d2c758c06cd5e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

164.1 KB Created: 2020-09-22 18:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 6ac698a6995ee880380b6307a3a4f06e SHA-1: 31ef9956015705176ec868156a308078250afb5a SHA-256: f7d2c758c06cd5e2ee4d6e2df8ef0dde049145434e8cb1ed6d667aa35d5c5877
280 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 high-confidence detection for Emotet, a known downloader family. Critical heuristics indicate the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject and GetObject, suggesting it's designed to execute code upon opening. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0. The embedded URL, though benign according to reputation, is listed as an IOC due to its presence in the document.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9765458-0
  • Document_Open macro high OLE_VBA_DOCOPEN
    Document_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject 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
bd654d20c055e0b0e127587789558080b1c423748b3142eb9ab3aa76d6d97f9b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20393 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.