Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdd3d83dc6ff7122…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

162.7 KB Created: 2020-09-14 06:44:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 80ac93057737586afee4861a7e37173b SHA-1: 33b64af6f344570886c0bd14ad5ca8c850806487 SHA-256: fdd3d83dc6ff712204b45d9dd5b04ccecce3d2dad4f20e24867c2737c3379081
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, specifically the Document_Open auto-execution and CreateObject calls, strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a VBA macro named 'macros.bas' further supports this. The embedded document body text appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, but the VBA macro firings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern. The macro likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762310-0
  • 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
94aa0eae3715e5e4c777d8559a3d12a3d055d6c09f9bd5aa9415cdba60070681
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 25226 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.