Emotet Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 24a397182e8db482

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

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

MD5: 44d60446d8d97e70ed796214b73c38b9 SHA-1: 5934275b2d07a535653d13d147dffa5bff56cf34 SHA-256: 24a397182e8db482dbf657dd204af371b850fe9bc9528c8e9b49981eb374c903

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0, indicating a downloader family. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and the use of CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell strongly suggest the execution of malicious code. The macro attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://harperhouseproducts.com/Merchandise2/ARSf1LIcOauh1rDrI/A', and saves it as 'c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs'. The script also creates a batch file 'c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat' which likely executes the downloaded payload.

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` `19bcc918a46e4e67cb31a0ae970f69395ccca7ec8fbd352fd373e3ea95ff4035`	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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