Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac142782cb8a1f9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

138.0 KB Created: 2022-02-09 09:48:26 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: fa1161e5795312cb324c87faa63330d8 SHA-1: 5091413f28519ac429df34d71e39c9eddc0d5431 SHA-256: ac142782cb8a1f9d0e4ccac3f3c1e198234632f319c37e17e5a5813109adb9d7
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 sample 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 VBScript payload from the reconstructed URL 'http://midnighsilvercrafters.com/store/wBjNOUwc/BI710N4cQ6R3/'. It also creates a batch file at 'c:\programdata\bhnasleil.bat' and a VBScript at 'c:\programdata\oue4hjld.vbs', indicating a downloader and execution chain.

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
22d454babfc6afc32a6e73a4cd1413e97bd0bc6cb214e4402a700960b2d8a691		 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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