Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d72fc4b5d0e05e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8889f73cb3bf579bf4053f6d01530e8a SHA-1: d92884ef5fbc16ccbf612e7529dbfdee7928829d SHA-256: 06d72fc4b5d0e05e66132dad9ac29a699a8ed5b22e9eaf4e1bce6f12c41c3278
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains heavily obfuscated VBA macros, including a Workbook_Open auto-execution loader that utilizes CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell. This script then proceeds to execute a batch file and a VBScript, both dropped to c:\programdata\. The VBA code also attempts to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'https://fullunes-safety.com//P6xx//' and 'https://nabajyotifoundation.com/da8uc7jo/4Za/'. The presence of Emotet-related heuristics and the download-and-execute behavior strongly indicate the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_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.
  • VBA macros detected medium OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains VBA macro code

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7a075e02dc1e88807280b9b84946715e79a3c091d50391301434649c77b78ea1		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12808 bytes

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