Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbce054fa8b087f3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 206f64e98fc3673f02ab04a9c5cc0f66 SHA-1: a1bb7cc9cf99a89a46221c46909968662579ab4a SHA-256: bbce054fa8b087f325943a8b49d919856b485758c8980c2e291f5f2944ae779b
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script utilizes 'CreateObject' and references 'Wscript.Shell' to execute commands. It constructs a long string which appears to be a list of URLs, likely for downloading a second-stage payload. The reconstructed URL string is: "http://santoftorilla.com/_baks/tUX9/,http://donbaha.com/Home_files/YS0PAaPxyeraes/,http://barnhart-studies.com/eln-images/Vcbhg1n/,http://blute.com/3dech/jLu8IAnnj3gK9WC/,http://zenzebra.net/plath/9Q0DBLE/,http://realacorp.net/PhotoGallery/Uw mRHceSGbaCeGF/ ,http://miniflam.com/eln-images/FSwbQjU M AfGxdw/,http://marezedecor.com/MarezeGallery/SEQxWtpMJ7A8rtYDO/". Additionally, it attempts to write two files to disk: c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs and c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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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