Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f1c26ff69dd47e8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a395f2e4ea81699cd8a3a302cb5df8ae SHA-1: 8ced445482a7e732518d7801904c0aecb49ff383 SHA-256: 6f1c26ff69dd47e8276b0ac3e6aabc6c65c6204d4e75d6cf9538b9a2db9f76b4
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Excel file containing a Workbook_Open VBA macro. This macro displays a deceptive message box to the user and then proceeds to execute a batch file, 'uidpjewl.bat'. The batch file contains heavily obfuscated PowerShell commands that attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The ClamAV detection name 'Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family.

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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