Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d4cf10881c4563…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: b3c4e2b20df5ef00adfe3dd60bd6d8ec SHA-1: c49f8b133430ca8e9d7d951b8464a3a3d3f8a66c SHA-256: 98d4cf10881c45638dd04f446987080ff7bf47af1313840731cc72d7a1ddaa23
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script constructs a command line that includes multiple URLs and attempts to download and execute a payload. The reconstructed command line is: 'ncwkomncwkod ncwko sncwkotancwkort ncwko/Bncwko cncwko:ncwko\wncwkoincwkondncwkoowncwkos\sncwkowoncwkowncwko6ncwko4\rncwkounncwkodlncwkol3ncwko2.ncwkoexncwkoe cncwko:ncwko\pncwkoroncwkograncwkomdncwkoancwkota\vbkwk.dncwkolncwkol,dfsgeresd'. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URLs, and it also attempts to write a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0
  • 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
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12041 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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