Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3b05a828387111…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

66.8 KB Created: 2018-11-06 07:12:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-01-11
MD5: 84edcc87da575c69f2fac0b50178fa42 SHA-1: 17f35c2ba73d85341a8feddeba34472da52ef3ff SHA-256: 1e3b05a8283871117192d73f0730efbaaa7aeef23b0e0cad957a6eefef4bd3f9
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as Emotet by ClamAV. Heuristics indicate the presence of PowerShell commands and LOLBin usage within the document body. The obfuscated PowerShell script reconstructs a Base64 encoded string, which is then decoded and executed, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. This behavior is consistent with Emotet's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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)