Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75a74a3608cd4c0e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

144.0 KB Created: 2006-09-28 05:33:49 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: af2b2eb8d00695c92c33e12bbc503355 SHA-1: 26c0f4cb4a35b7b9aa302c00120161376677ec0a SHA-256: 75a74a3608cd4c0e58e217764092c654df7b15e5e32374cb8a7945d638144609
300 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains an obfuscated VBA loader within a Workbook_Open macro, indicative of Emotet. The script utilizes CreateObject to execute shell commands, including a command that appears to download and execute a second-stage payload from a list of URLs. The presence of Wscript.Shell and the execution of a batch file (`c:\programdata\uylcsekn.bat`) further support this. The script also contains a Base64 encoded string which is likely part of the payload delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 7

  • Obfuscated auto-exec VBA loader critical OLE_VBA_OBFUSCATED_AUTOEXEC_LOADER
    Auto-exec VBA reconstructs strings with a heavy custom decoder (numeric char-array, repeated hex-string decode, or junk-token Replace removal) and feeds them to a COM-instantiation or execution sink. This obfuscated-loader shape keeps CreateObject/Shell/URL indicators out of the macro source.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
022b6ea87e671715cd07f596eceb5d45e85534a367868a0e820c8aa5cb013822		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6734 bytes

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