Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · acd2b7f01042f99c

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

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

MD5: a6c3201ceb5ec8e37a1fe20cffd0b0eb SHA-1: b1d7ba2bd9a623a008ddb93d7aab188164b848a2 SHA-256: acd2b7f01042f99cdd06065e884ccea757cea81fd489bba82a3c809323e41c7a

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common Emotet delivery technique. The macro uses Wscript.Shell to create and execute a batch file (`c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat`) and a VBScript (`c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs`). The script content indicates it attempts to download further payloads from multiple URLs, including reconstructed URLs like 'https://nabajyofundation.com/da8uc7jo/4Za/'. This behavior strongly suggests a downloader role, consistent with Emotet's typical operations.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetRed02220-9938909-0
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` `7a075e02dc1e88807280b9b84946715e79a3c091d50391301434649c77b78ea1`	vba-macro	oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source)	12808 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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