Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSM malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6333f674153d70eb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: a1dcebe50d29f5817141e69db53bb40c SHA-1: 31306b0deb4aa159b4e7fdccdc371186a9efbc2a SHA-256: 6333f674153d70eb91527d6692a66074d80c853ec0f2128c4b887d5b56d842ec
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject to execute obfuscated PowerShell commands. These commands are designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedhaonline.com/wp-content/HyzNXJ30XQEVBCBRH/'. The presence of Emotet-related heuristics and the download functionality strongly indicate a malicious downloader.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0
  • 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.
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains a VBA project — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12041 bytes
vbaProject_00.bin
369f561a7225ceb64c11164eb1efc3c2d2eb74b68a9f729ead3207829c647c3d		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 42496 bytes

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