Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 39bcf5af268a475f

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: ddb51c5f56a5642e688e16dce9a0558f SHA-1: 2736d5c39bdf2410949e324e11d81edefb3a57f2 SHA-256: 39bcf5af268a475f792419877ca95e9fc18b831d3c2e52e02f554f38e219ffe9

240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://midnighitsilvercraft.com/store/wBjNOUw/BI710N4cQA6R3/' and 'https://redington.karmaat'. It also creates batch and VBScript files in the programdata directory, such as 'c:\programdata\oue4hjld.vbs' and 'c:\programdata\bhnasleil.bat', likely to facilitate execution and persistence.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `dccb69205945a1025f146fed50ed5e153a56deab2bc67784a94a4adb42327291`	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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