Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · 687e234c7b54e259

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

141.1 KB Created: 2022-01-19 09:31:16 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: b98526d80304e57b590d741228f44120 SHA-1: 98c74a9738ff65d0ae2d3fc12afa08e71005e847 SHA-256: 687e234c7b54e2590520375221eec756b91e6e03b05bbb313e8765457906c707

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains Excel 4.0 macros, specifically an Auto_Open defined name, which is a common technique for executing malicious code upon opening the document. ClamAV detection identifies it as a downloader, and the presence of XLM macros strongly suggests it's designed to fetch and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Emotet's behavior. The document body, while appearing benign as a blood pressure tracker, serves as a lure.

Heuristics 3

Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME

oletools recovered an Auto_Open / Auto_Close entry from an Excel 4.0 macro sheet. The raw BIFF name can be tokenized or partially opaque to byte-string checks, but the recovered macro listing confirms the workbook has an XLM auto-execution entry.
ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel01220-9936774-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel01220-9936774-0
Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet present medium OLE_XLM_AUTOOPEN

Workbook contains an Excel 4.0 macro sheet sub-stream — XLM is rarely seen in modern legitimate workbooks and was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_macros.txt` `592af8991900f2f7058dc7ea90a33320ae293c7e541db4222a7b7f9c04f59d96`	xlm-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_all_macros (XLM macro listing)	8469 bytes

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