Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078d0548e935ce52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 47012efc49bc1504acaa634407882d7d SHA-1: faa8921b69973f334449e1f63a9210353fc2cd44 SHA-256: 078d0548e935ce5237dc30c9cb087498fc4391ddb42e199602bd17e1856fe328
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that leverages Windows Script Host (Wscript.Shell) to execute a batch file. This batch file, in turn, attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The ClamAV detection name 'Xls.Downloader.Emotet' strongly suggests the Emotet family, and the macro's behavior aligns with Emotet's typical downloader functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0
  • 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
faf50200d5a9adeeda00cc1da1bbf8f6abf0317a1e97a58db8ae804ba12ba446		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13985 bytes

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