Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 501a4891ac4edde1

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 89d44b6fd023e9dd150e80ab8e2d050d SHA-1: f22b77202a3ad6cba195552b23f71524aff63e1c SHA-256: 501a4891ac4edde15ce2f861cda3bbe8691523ae8684e88f9063884ee6fc8920

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that leverages Wscript.Shell to execute a VBScript payload. The embedded VBScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to download and execute additional stages from multiple URLs. The presence of the Workbook_Open auto-execution and the use of Wscript.Shell are strong indicators of a downloader, consistent with the Emotet family. The ClamAV detection further supports this attribution.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0
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` `faf50200d5a9adeeda00cc1da1bbf8f6abf0317a1e97a58db8ae804ba12ba446`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	13985 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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