Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a382b1d393684f32…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 03723e034a3af3b7dbe51e480c13f8aa SHA-1: 63892c130ea883a60fc6d1220ae0a4c136c599d6 SHA-256: a382b1d393684f3295d57f97b185af8364400f38650803bf3c7b72fb7f110884
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

This document contains a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated PowerShell commands. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedhaonline.com/wp-content/HyzNXJ30XQEVcBSRH/'. The presence of the 'EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0' ClamAV signature strongly suggests this is an Emotet downloader variant.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0
  • 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
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12041 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
367a0d733f0daeb50bca2dd5b12eda7eb016488d5a085102e2742f4d0a398ab3
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 42496 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.