Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOCX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68f339174767db80…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOCX

155.2 KB Created: 2021-01-04 18:59:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: dada10fab917c0854ef4f5bb5f200b38 SHA-1: d912c5e75ed304b620f26cab960820253e109c7b SHA-256: 68f339174767db80cb1578578631e93ff0ca10f79e575271ced080937a3f3159
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1047 WMI

The sample contains a VBA macro that is triggered by the Document_Open event. This macro uses CreateObject to instantiate a Scripting.FileSystemObject, which is then used to create and write to files on the system. The ClamAV detection name and the obfuscated string concatenation for 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' strongly suggest Emotet activity. The macro's actions indicate it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • Dangerous API name reassembled from split string literals critical OLE_VBA_SPLIT_KEYWORD_OBFUSCATION
    VBA concatenates short string literals that reassemble a dangerous API/ProgID/LOLBin name (e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject, WScript.Shell, powershell, URLDownloadToFile) which appears in no single literal. Splitting an API name across string concatenation is done only to evade keyword scanning.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02224-9938637-0
  • 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.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
28e0aab9def1820176582f12126397a14f2c858209766b704c735ce1d1db4cc2		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 7154 bytes

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