Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39757f220d392b67…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 381a1083be7291ee6929355b5e1b6a11 SHA-1: 4d49a311be30cb16125c5ba3ff24f64de39897bc SHA-256: 39757f220d392b67a34d4f39be7182c6a4024cae5a2c1bdff12f03281067ee97
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0'. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls indicates that the macro is designed to execute automatically upon opening the document. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedahonline.com/wp-content/HyzNXJ30XOVbCSRBH/', 'http://divachintex.com/wp-incudades/WBhWRKs8KvNzNfm6/', 'http://hotelanmalabol.com/1520/bUdhEPdf/', and 'http://shwenantawin.com/copma/XTnZiI02vfgV'. It also creates batch and VBScript files in the 'c:\programdata\' directory.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12041 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
3822fe4301e50731fe1c65063e26ccb68c467d4dbb79f39b7fac11b8bb698b55
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 42496 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.