Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 4b7b0d0a46bf980a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

88.5 KB Created: 2022-02-14 05:58:53 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-02-22

MD5: 88bc0a7ca68a9687508dba2cae13d853 SHA-1: 68dbe115f675daebe89c2610807d89481af581d6 SHA-256: 4b7b0d0a46bf980a15b406ef39f96da2142144b3861bd1fdf797551ea29e7e9e

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, including Workbook_Open and CreateObject, strongly indicate malicious intent. The extracted VBA script contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that reconstruct a URL and attempt to download a DLL to 'c:\programdata\oiphilfj.dll'. This payload is then likely executed via wscript, as suggested by the 'SC_STR_WSCRIPT' heuristic and the presence of 'wscript' in the obfuscated script. The reconstructed URL is "http://my-microgreen.com/Foux-CNOJxhsdhjbouhuiwtuiwp:dhjdhjmyuiwmicrog".

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.Emotet02220-9940037-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.Emotet02220-9940037-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `98ce64e756a4ee3d4f776c1541f7f3ad0f966d786db88eda74f9a833f3a74b83`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	11705 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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