Emotet Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 21c78aac5a870177

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

92.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000

MD5: e429a5b22d363cabf5889d67d1bc98fc SHA-1: 622c22f437ce20c4b92068e6448e5fa75866cd41 SHA-256: 21c78aac5a87017728bd6e29d945ec8f273b12ffed6a3c1b06bfa0cff9530551

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls indicates the execution of malicious VBA code. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including reconstructed URLs like 'http://harperhouseproducts.com/Merchandise2/ARSf1LIcOauhH1rDiH/', and saves them as 'c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs' and 'c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat'.

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0
Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN

Workbook_Open macro
CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ

CreateObject call
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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA

Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `de7bcbc45ff0a77d05d9af662bacc316e71be11a980e94f6673e556a5dd9d1bc`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML)	12808 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
`vbaProject_00.bin` `b15d68c2ea75eaeb7d4be2e244f3b2ed29e58f1d8389a1d97d7829bf9fd8859a`	vba-project	OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin	37888 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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