Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54544a9a8d7d072a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

144.0 KB Created: 2006-09-28 05:33:49 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ede529eb20a502a3dbad0409e2283bc6 SHA-1: 5983ce6665a25050c39ef5ae9f030cf5018a4fbf SHA-256: 54544a9a8d7d072a85ee7e9ea1406ab8df669122be66c7a5a178ace3b55ed2b6
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file contains a Workbook_Open macro that leverages Wscript.Shell to execute commands. The macro attempts to reconstruct a long string of URLs, likely for downloading a second-stage payload. The presence of Wscript.Shell, CreateObject, and the Workbook_Open auto-execution heuristic strongly suggest a downloader functionality, consistent with Emotet. The ClamAV signature also confirms this attribution.

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
022b6ea87e671715cd07f596eceb5d45e85534a367868a0e820c8aa5cb013822		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6734 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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