Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd27023dd046285e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

266.5 KB Created: 2020-02-06 20:09:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 1bd7a701f82710e5ecd6bbd91bebdf54 SHA-1: fb59979a2ab71286c6ac94d8b1dd9757f71feee3 SHA-256: fd27023dd046285e738fcd9691bcb289c5745a26df1a4f507a19f1eb591f00c2
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-7581139-1', strongly indicating the Emotet family. Critical heuristics indicate a VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager that executes automatically via the Document_Open macro using CreateObject. This suggests the macro is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. No specific URLs or registry keys were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is a high-confidence IOC.

Heuristics 8

  • VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER
    VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-7581139-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-7581139-1
  • 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
8544fe8ebb367e878aea3cfe24ac290f80467136ee5ba40c0719c25d04f8ff58
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12934 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.