Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90941eabb9ad4aa6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 8938a1ad63a3b5773228b06fb119e4b3 SHA-1: d60c2420a95139a560477f71f82bcdad8a666ea4 SHA-256: 90941eabb9ad4aa6311491f52484ea90ffdb4d42472ced4288b3b327ea02d485
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://midnighsilverbircraft.com/store/wBjNOUw/NAT_E_22_2009/BI710N4cQA6R3/' and 'https://redington.karmat'. It also creates batch and VBScript files in the \programdata\ directory, likely for execution and persistence. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
  • 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
1d35d8f3b3110e24ffcc6901fdff9a617f8073d7b3f156c94a4b4f8a7cea5f7f		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 52433 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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