Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba8b3af696c3a8bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

99.5 KB Created: 2017-10-11 14:03:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2017-10-28
MD5: db27c4fd5e8b6b3b7eb84ba2d625b0d1 SHA-1: 8dddc7091776690f7c74e61644f8c4c38b0f5be3 SHA-256: ba8b3af696c3a8bc8fa0e377b76da8bfe68b29f499a57ba6cbaef97278f64ff2
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0 by ClamAV, strongly indicating the Emotet family. Static analysis revealed a reference to PowerShell, suggesting the execution of malicious scripts. The presence of an AutoOpen macro marker further supports the likelihood of automated execution upon opening the document, a common tactic for Emotet.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Emotet-6397178-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • 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.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.
  • 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) 320 bytes
SHA-256: 5b4fcb19ec8f68de6cdf1b8b73de94161534ed645b39fb8f9f6a28e31f908652
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "ThisDocument"
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

Attribute VB_Name = "Module1"

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