Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 574dc71c26f6ae36…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: e398bcfecffebd69ef85108ba93d321d SHA-1: 4457d5e3a8f376f6e28ece8010ca40e772133b5f SHA-256: 574dc71c26f6ae36ce095a6c9d7f442d52faa29000ea0688340d5de1b164eab1
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The reconstructed URL is "http://youlanda.org/eln-image/n8DPZISf/ ,http://rosevidebo.net/eln-images/EjdcOMlY8Gy/ ,http://vbaint.com/eln-images/H2pPTe8XzENc/ ,https://framemakers.us/eln-images/U5W2IGe9m8i9hr/ ,http://niplaw.com/asoLidfoudata ,http://robertmchilespe.com/cgi/3f/ ,http://vocoptions.net/cgi/ifM9R5ylbVpM8hfyR/ ,http://misiocnny.org/fonts/JO5/ ,http://robertflod.us/eln-images/DGI2YOkwSc9XPO/ ,http://mpmcomputing.com". Additionally, it creates a batch file at 'c:\programdata\uidpjewl.bat' which further executes commands.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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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