Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46a4aa93d8614352…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

78.5 KB Created: 2017-10-09 20:08:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2017-10-28
MD5: 568e1af2b5066d6b27ef58218bbc20fe SHA-1: 113cd5906f1bab214a837addfb2e30cdef1339af SHA-256: 46a4aa93d8614352b078301cf819b9978743d144ab333a701f0e1c6cc3975357
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The file was detected as Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0 by ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of Emotet family involvement. A critical heuristic firing points to the use of PowerShell, suggesting the document is designed to execute malicious commands. The embedded URL, though benign, is noted as a potential indicator of malicious intent in similar documents.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • 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)

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