Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81edc681565935b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 569f656218c89332408ed2ccf471446f SHA-1: 61bd2e4471db3f6a8d8766547115a7c0e40092f8 SHA-256: 81edc681565935b8a10b6cc6fb860a34bab810b4939925d12d7779ef2b288d6e
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0'. The Workbook_Open macro is present and uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell. It then proceeds to construct and execute a command that downloads and saves two files, 'yhjlswle.vbs' and 'ughldskbhn.bat', to the 'c:\programdata\' directory. The VBA script also contains a heavily obfuscated string that appears to be a list of URLs from which the payload is downloaded. This indicates a downloader functionality typical of the Emotet family.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
7a075e02dc1e88807280b9b84946715e79a3c091d50391301434649c77b78ea1		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.

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