Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32efd3dc59a0008d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

142.8 KB Created: 2022-01-19 09:31:16 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 951698624e4adee587a2858aa05deb16 SHA-1: aeecf0ce18d3e14b5d8a0c951e443c10b82a0524 SHA-256: 32efd3dc59a0008dfe321d99b4d86a446a06af1e3b128295b387c235b4751a0b
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic

The critical heuristic OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME indicates the presence of an Excel 4.0 Auto_Open macro, which is a common execution vector for Emotet. The ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel01220-9936774-0' further supports the Emotet family attribution and suggests the macro's purpose is to download additional malware. The document body content appears to be a lure, disguised as blood pressure tracking data.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xlm_macros.txt
592af8991900f2f7058dc7ea90a33320ae293c7e541db4222a7b7f9c04f59d96		 xlm-macro oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing) 8469 bytes

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