Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b133e8b0f46b0a0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 6300703e25069ce8c76e54fd070e3f17 SHA-1: 35263d28e442033982878dbe825d20025c996591 SHA-256: 3b133e8b0f46b0a08b36d098ba8f74affa85cdde867b4213b9fe46f601a1648e
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', indicating it belongs to the Emotet family. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls suggests the execution of malicious code upon opening the document. The embedded script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedahonline.com/wp-content/HyzNXJ30XQVBSRH/', and writes a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'.

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
cdb0dd2cf2b1849745e12ee3290cf707ae15cd552a33c94df35851b1e9ca1a23
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.