Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3382b8bb2b85f7d7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e25e831ebe34017fdadfcdb039780a8d SHA-1: e3a848d0830fde68f3ff24b43b9f40ffc96b0f26 SHA-256: 3382b8bb2b85f7d79037d4c33c4dde3b09102bea871047323d5eaaadfe57f8c4
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0', indicating a high likelihood of it being an Emotet variant. The Workbook_Open VBA macro is designed to execute code that displays a message box to the user. Following this, it constructs and executes a batch command that downloads payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://lbsbriefs.com/cg/2akl8X82xEKeuhI/' and 'http://howebeautiful.com/eln-images/tyj208/', saving them as '.vbs' and '.bat' files in 'c:\programdata\'. The script also contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that appear to be part of the payload download and execution chain.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0
  • 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
faf50200d5a9adeeda00cc1da1bbf8f6abf0317a1e97a58db8ae804ba12ba446		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13985 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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