Emotet — Office (OLE) / .DOC malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc2e1eefea5bb012…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .DOC

184.5 KB Created: 2021-11-24 10:11:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: e0af3d39be9b22d164ce0a6d1b09c007 SHA-1: d8004f713e85f6900d1878725c1a61c4f24349fd SHA-256: dc2e1eefea5bb012ca8b78664cf5e21b4edc95582058c1ae7b0dca63e5c0aa06
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a signature indicating it's a downloader associated with Emotet. The VBA macros contain obfuscated PowerShell commands that reconstruct a URL for downloading a second-stage payload. Specifically, the script reconstructs the following URLs: 'http://everisyoglobal.evens.com/wordpress/ZYZ1wZJFu34Bbj/', 'https://demo.nhabe360.com/arthroceel/ufYiTla2O/', 'https://theoutsourcedaccountant.com/prb8h/NeXCc0ccs/', 'https://gms.gdtnbvu.club/gash/M9tOuTEGUOKsRNxd7GVyu9o/', 'http://forwardmar.club/imp/J9rT5BUF4ZCQpaVMDfpo/', and 'https://brashimix.com/l3pkut/fuWgsoZsHm3ddKviIS7XEF2/'. The script also attempts to write to registry keys related to persistence, specifically 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IAccessible2Proxy'.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRedDawn11210-9912807-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRedDawn11210-9912807-0
  • Heap-spray pattern detected high SC_HEAP_SPRAY
    Repeated 0x07 bytes found
  • Reference to WinExec API high SC_STR_WINEXEC
    Reference to WinExec API
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
3d8e72d52b5d32200311f6c91c1043b980c8bcbcb72a5cc3cecd6e3758f21ece
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 20963 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.