Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6653903242017726…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bef7165af0800399b6385202863a6830 SHA-1: c797ad5eb29ba485230df7e808ac00308a483674 SHA-256: 66539032420177268a3e83ff4045c2597ea993b40c089b6ec3db8b56f2ea4b0c
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell, indicating an attempt to execute external scripts. The macro likely constructs and executes a batch file or VBScript, as evidenced by the `c:\programdata\tjspowj.vbs` and `c:\programdata\uidpjewl.bat` paths. The embedded VBScript string contains multiple URLs, suggesting it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection as 'Xls.Downloader.Emotet' further supports this analysis.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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

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