Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87396df4f4c92ffb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

92.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 029ba3e57ea786a068fbfd3b8b4d57df SHA-1: d7c8cfa5392db0076f877a6373af36ceae94f23c SHA-256: 87396df4f4c92ffb481480d9fc2bf604b107233cddfcbf7c4a90cb03c87a2c69
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0'. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and CreateObject calls strongly suggests malicious intent. The VBA script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://harperhousseproducts.com/Merchan2/ARSf1LIcOauh1rDiR/', and saves it as 'c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs' and 'c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat'.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
de7bcbc45ff0a77d05d9af662bacc316e71be11a980e94f6673e556a5dd9d1bc
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
74e29c7806e7517fa09695c6f5fdb5d0b13845bd2852909fe70563f7897950b5
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 37888 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.