Emotet Office (OLE) malware analysis — malicious · a81b7059c9013911

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

155.8 KB Created: 2020-09-14 23:20:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word

MD5: ac7ea7c5ad24ede05aa3d7ec71f94fa6 SHA-1: 9829a9ace74ae8d6028ccd288c6ea9a6f8f5ce50 SHA-256: a81b7059c9013911d1bf62195f0bfc1a7f8e0cec8258f7a9a9ca26acde919bcc

300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample contains a VBA macro that triggers on Document_Open, utilizing a CreateObject call to execute an obfuscated PowerShell stager. This stager is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of a hidden UserForm and encoded PowerShell command strongly suggests a downloader functionality. ClamAV detection and heuristic firings confirm the malicious nature and point towards the Emotet family.

Heuristics 8

Hidden UserForm PowerShell EncodedCommand stager critical OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL

OLE document contains a UTF-16LE form/property string with an obfuscated PowerShell -EncodedCommand payload. The observed macro family reconstructs this hidden string with Split/Join or UserForm property reads and launches it through WMI/COM process creation. This is downloader malware, not an Office CVE exploit.
ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762289-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762289-0
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `c2c6c828c036fac6100aee871b53e2578aa69d81979ea582439457589bcf0fbb`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	18613 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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