Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 288ee1af0c508eb0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e33c9f08ecb95c8d27794166c856c4cc SHA-1: c4ef90570bc7f0152470a7099050ff2ef3fb512e SHA-256: 288ee1af0c508eb03c133e21f03f255ec5f770ef81de06685d22f9829381062b
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that execute obfuscated commands. Specifically, it uses `wscript.createobject` to instantiate `Wscript.Shell` and then runs two files: `c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs` and `c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat`. The `wscript.Shell` object is also used to execute a command that appears to download content from multiple URLs, including `https://nabajyotifundation.com/da8uc7jo/4Za/` and `https://dwmaster.com/wp-content/eIB2UFY/`. The ClamAV detection `Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0` strongly suggests the Emotet family, which is known for its downloader capabilities.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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.
  • 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 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
7a075e02dc1e88807280b9b84946715e79a3c091d50391301434649c77b78ea1		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12808 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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