Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af982aa55d409e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a4e75b23a13f88911a3246a99761c506 SHA-1: 1ada56c8145d9153106a1b20fe21bc1163411821 SHA-256: 2af982aa55d409e6cbdda44afb964ad29a657f58c11a5c119d5b0fc104aa3f24
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The script attempts to download and execute a payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://midnighthilivercrafters.com/store/wBjNOUwc/BI710N4cA6R3/' and 'http://temp.com/NAT_05_22_2009/BI710N4cA6R3/', and also attempts to write a .vbs file to 'c:\programdata\oue4hjld.vbs' and a .bat file to 'c:\programdata\bhnasleil.bat'. The ClamAV detection as 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0' further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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
0364a88147cedbbc20c0ca4b8fbb406c7cf6c08df52cd4f9d5e8093c4f19f490		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 52433 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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