Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3567ee2d192728d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

75.5 KB Created: 2018-11-05 22:29:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word First seen: 2019-02-26
MD5: 2bb091cc9d32bf6e3f3b8bf73e3ce953 SHA-1: c33f29ecb5bd5ef3fca15831292eeb65bac4a0e5 SHA-256: f3567ee2d192728de9220cc487a206f560f32303cd011fbf7a83033e98959028
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file was detected as Emotet by ClamAV. Static analysis revealed a high-confidence heuristic for PowerShell usage and a LOLBin command sequence within the document body. The document body contains an obfuscated PowerShell command that decodes and executes a second-stage payload, likely for further malware deployment.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Emotet-6769504-0
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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)