Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2218760bf630f75b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: edbdf98b4bca79102c18a1e9049c7640 SHA-1: c77dae695bd34a64162318bbb19e8e598ccf5ed0 SHA-256: 2218760bf630f75bac4a38a2e4f53aaf6195004a1d83ab5863e08f3079757bd0
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a macro-enabled Excel file that contains a Workbook_Open macro, a common technique for Emotet. The VBA script executes a PowerShell command that is heavily obfuscated. This command is responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs. The script also attempts to create batch and VBScript files in the programdata directory.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12041 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
8e13ec28e2d3a9ee50695f0d873f0133d552ddac8586b4f282d94c8cc3382270
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 42496 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.