Emotet Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · 2ec4f88aa992709d

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

186.6 KB Created: 2020-09-15 11:47:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: 3a9ee66604ebac16899e29ce60adcb62 SHA-1: 9d9b00f1ba36a358638ab5a80b412f53edc91e6d SHA-256: 2ec4f88aa992709dfd37bd46dcc4ae63994c7fc674a987888ace0bfad97778c2

300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that utilizes CreateObject to execute a PowerShell stager. This stager is heavily obfuscated but appears to be a UTF-16LE encoded command that downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The embedded URL, while benign, is present in the document text.

Heuristics 8

Hidden UserForm PowerShell EncodedCommand stager critical OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL

OLE document contains a UTF-16LE form/property string with an obfuscated PowerShell -EncodedCommand payload. The observed macro family reconstructs this hidden string with Split/Join or UserForm property reads and launches it through WMI/COM process creation. This is downloader malware, not an Office CVE exploit.
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.EmotetWinMob0920-9636503-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `b8e07f1a26e378ad66aa45e874b33eb98cd646ec4a53c9d43f1763af1b17616f`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	22982 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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