Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f18b20bd48596f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ee449e28df58fb66ecedc8bd8f6e46a2 SHA-1: deaa8ce167bba285469750196903798f28807436 SHA-256: 0f18b20bd48596f29763ade8ed158fe064bcb921c4bc8c90752b67d877a54961
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file that uses a Workbook_Open macro to execute a Visual Basic script. This script leverages Wscript.Shell to download and execute a batch file from a hardcoded URL. The script also attempts to execute a PowerShell command, indicating a downloader functionality.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
c49f2df77c50e10269216d97c3efdf7c32f9f18ba5d8fd42a9b144f48e100040		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 5709 bytes

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