Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d4706a6b2d4df30…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 5c4bedf4406eb6ce0b27780cf5f2efd2 SHA-1: 00a8845e8ca2e919692348559e99acefb90d37fe SHA-256: 3d4706a6b2d4df3054565a793cf698004b7d88bf2b7c03cab96dbf8c5a382894
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that trigger on workbook open, indicative of malicious intent. The script utilizes Wscript.Shell and attempts to download a payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://mytelefoniists.de/wp-content/bLM8fxV2MQ/jAqAorV8quhL23HMg/'. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet downloaders, which are known to deliver further malware.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
d6216b1540c6d866e0cdc66ed3bfa2b79b477655c56d42a698e7b407351a97e3		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6560 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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