Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a14a004d102a98b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

73.9 KB Created: 2018-11-08 03:58:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: c894c6b8802286412bbfbffeebafbceb SHA-1: b460bfbf13f1d282ca2f5d0d8d6ccab1e0947ddf SHA-256: 7a14a004d102a98b84ccf66476e43dcf04592f7aa995d1ddd39bb78a6953fc6e
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains heavily obfuscated PowerShell commands that are executed via cmd.exe. The script attempts to decompress and execute a Base64 encoded payload. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet droppers, which are known to download and run additional malware. The ClamAV detection also strongly suggests Emotet.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0
  • Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag high SC_STR_CMD
    Suspicious cmd.exe invocation with execution flag
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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)