Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a325cc61774a833c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 9602f4702a793374d708df7d9f7ba8a4 SHA-1: bc56af4ed9b37d393b7b9e0ef4564c0a8eceffe6 SHA-256: a325cc61774a833c5d4db88d86cf2e478b8084f7728646eb18adc3fd85e7c661
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 the URLs 'http://midnighthsilverbricrafters.com/store/wBjNOUw/710N4cQA6R3/' and 'https://redington.karmaat'. It also creates batch and VBScript files in the 'C:\programdata\' directory, namely 'oue4hjld.vbs' and 'bhnasleil.bat', likely to facilitate further execution or persistence.

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
09584d39781bd2416db67c75bfe038a3eafcb78102a977e1d4d86c767e63e936		 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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