Emotet — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd847c1ac2582df7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

158.0 KB Created: 2020-09-15 13:42:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Office Word
MD5: 7bc8b1f28c62cb88e4af27bb367967e3 SHA-1: b30554517742cb2ca1e73e6732a36193ed5560f0 SHA-256: fd847c1ac2582df7fc923b1a1c5a5ab3c065151c082c2a2ed29b36210f899d07
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The sample is a malicious Office document containing VBA macros. A critical heuristic indicates an obfuscated PowerShell stager within a hidden UserForm, specifically using an EncodedCommand. The presence of a Document_Open macro and CreateObject calls further supports this. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762371-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common Emotet tactic.

Heuristics 8

  • Hidden UserForm PowerShell EncodedCommand stager critical OLE_USERFORM_OBFUSCATED_POWERSHELL
    OLE document contains a UTF-16LE form/property string with an obfuscated PowerShell -EncodedCommand payload. The observed macro family reconstructs this hidden string with Split/Join or UserForm property reads and launches it through WMI/COM process creation. This is downloader malware, not an Office CVE exploit.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762371-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Malware.Emotet-9762371-0
  • 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.
  • 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
8bee8f90d9dfb3891c7c232e7baf01a2aaa2db95a501fe4ff2d320babae29389		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 22935 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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