Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6fd49e54de3d5f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

74.5 KB Created: 2017-10-04 13:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2017-10-28
MD5: 700df9f0c5a9320c7c811699222442d1 SHA-1: 183230ca34e6ffe28f62b865b0a38baaee873c50 SHA-256: 6a6fd49e54de3d5f9e28ec6694a360d7e222bdc19f6b1efcabc50244fa07c1b2
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is detected as Emotet by ClamAV and contains a reference to PowerShell, indicating it likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of an autoopen macro marker suggests it is designed to run automatically when the document is opened, consistent with a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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) 318 bytes
SHA-256: 96921b95dbeb1d83e603b82b6a4f5c05466e2de5bd59fb37fc1ac94c63313bbd
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
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

Attribute VB_Name = "Module1"

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