Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9bb48e8a782168…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

123.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 9b351f9e8228cee8bbc0b1852a622b2d SHA-1: 5088cb5bba8dd479e2f4f43eba1abc05c85906fd SHA-256: 4a9bb48e8a782168dedb181d19b1c57c76f9a18d3bea02bfafa3a5e0910e9e68
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros that execute via Workbook_Open, leveraging Wscript.Shell to create and run malicious VBS and BAT files from the 'c:\programdata\' directory. The script also attempts to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://harperoproducts.com/Merchan2/ARSf1LICoauhH1rDrIHi/', indicating a downloader functionality. The ClamAV detection and heuristic firings strongly suggest Emotet family activity.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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
de7bcbc45ff0a77d05d9af662bacc316e71be11a980e94f6673e556a5dd9d1bc		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12808 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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