Emotet Office (OOXML) / .XLSM malware analysis — malicious · 94d7ec70fa1eb8d4

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

49.3 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:19:34 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 16.0300 First seen: 2022-03-15

MD5: c4c6d8b5ed202009b19f158ba8a9ab5e SHA-1: c51d81f6a79b7c88911b37c36c96a8e58c8fb405 SHA-256: 94d7ec70fa1eb8d42dcacec6c21d18c3a33509b324fdea36aa4b9c270701cfdb

250 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Service Execution: Visual Basic T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel 4.0 macro-enabled spreadsheet (XLSM) containing multiple hidden sheets and utilizing dangerous XLM functions like FORMULA. The macros are designed to download a payload from one of the provided URLs and save it as 'regsver32.exe' in the SysWow64 directory. This behavior is consistent with Emotet's typical delivery mechanism, which often involves macro-based documents acting as downloaders for further stages.

Heuristics 6

Excel 4.0 macro sheet (3 sheet(s)) critical OOXML_XLM_MACROSHEET

Spreadsheet contains an Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro sheet — XLM was a major Office malware vector during 2020-2022 and evaded many VBA-focused controls before Microsoft tightened XLM defaults. Even legitimate XLM use is rare in modern workbooks.
Excel 4.0 Auto_Open defined name critical OOXML_XLM_AUTOOPEN_DEFINEDNAME

Workbook defines _xlnm.Auto_Open or _xlnm.Auto_Close while containing an XLM macro sheet. This is the OOXML/XLSB auto-execution shape for Excel 4.0 macros.
Dangerous XLM formula APIs: FORMULA critical OOXML_XLM_DANGEROUS_FN

Excel 4.0 macro sheet uses formula APIs that call directly into Win32 (=CALL/=EXEC/=REGISTER/=FORMULA). These are the primitives used to download payloads, write files, and start processes from an XLM macro without invoking VBA.
ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emotet03221-9941792-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emotet03221-9941792-0
Hidden worksheet (hidden) low OOXML_HIDDEN_SHEET

Excel workbook contains 6 hidden sheet(s) — hidden sheets are commonly used to conceal macro code, staging data, or intermediate payload construction
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL https://alinatourbg.com/mail/TBCGVNzLeENXb/
- http://www.alsancaklimanemlak.com/system/T8nE1jfQ7W/
- http://alsanjari.co.uk/alsanjari.com/CynW/
- http://amasides.my.id/cgi-bin/uFqdwCqAP7mro/
- http://alinac.ca/images/Lp6yKpIpRf6/
- http://amakpost.com/assets/c8AT1uoCVLSxez/
- http://alicehui.com/pics/fETgjDyPfUBQp/
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships
- http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/ac
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2014/revision
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2015/revision2
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2016/revision3
- http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2016/revision6

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xlm_sheet_00.xml` `561bd2ad03d5ff349d3a0a4fbda71b956dd8d97a0dbce4e25549bf8a7721c5df`	xlm-macrosheet	OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/intlsheet1.xml	4049 bytes
`xlm_sheet_01.xml` `4f892349a6f0ce9450df5d764f02eea0a737d43225bc39e0b3e39eaafe266901`	xlm-macrosheet	OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/sheet1.xml	1276 bytes
`xlm_sheet_02.xml` `f8dcec9dac216a8c4fc7140768d73598afe199c381abfb2f58ad13ed8f5733f6`	xlm-macrosheet	OOXML XLM macro sheet: xl/macrosheets/sheet2.xml	1152 bytes

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