Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · a887572e44782a2a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: fa884693279aca61bec2331678b34db3 SHA-1: fda2fbc738f1da47d69b30bf35f5c57cf5289b0d SHA-256: a887572e44782a2a2d7266ef4b847542cae42663f4abbda0baaf308e5d0c91ff

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is a malicious Excel document containing VBA macros that execute upon opening, as indicated by the Workbook_Open heuristic. The macros utilize CreateObject to launch Wscript.Shell, which then executes a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. This batch file appears to be responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from a list of obfuscated URLs, including 'https://monequout.ja.deals/assets/jcWxxvuSREP7VbWxj/'. The ClamAV detection name further supports the Emotet family attribution.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`macros.bas` `c49f2df77c50e10269216d97c3efdf7c32f9f18ba5d8fd42a9b144f48e100040`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	5709 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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