Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4124992efb9328d4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d6c766b943998b983286c8d870b33dea SHA-1: 09377f09c99033ffadb4e23aedb149538dbc1858 SHA-256: 4124992efb9328d4db5b2f94c4db7f4cdc4e421cc45f3641c7ef49c0418c5df7
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that utilizes CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell. This script then proceeds to construct and execute obfuscated PowerShell commands. The PowerShell command reconstructs a series of URLs and attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from them. The ClamAV detection and the nature of the VBA and PowerShell scripts strongly indicate Emotet activity.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0
  • 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
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12041 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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