Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc7ce8ff56832fc6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

191.0 KB Created: 2020-10-27 20:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: f9b658a56baf64c9ff0e2ca169bc82ec SHA-1: 95ed77a02ab7cc9bfc1a2d2dcc8f40ccf297ad6b SHA-256: fc7ce8ff56832fc6cd1bdb013de966cae38ff1e593a06e22f0e9764e09528a01
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including auto-execution via Document_Open and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate a malicious document. The presence of obfuscated VBA macros suggests an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body's obfuscated text is likely part of the lure, but the primary malicious activity is driven by the VBA code.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9784450-1
  • 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
557610d73c449d90b5a2aabccaaf95f7a5897df031246bc03a17cf1b86e2503b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 16372 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.