Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c45f3f7b833710f2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

121.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d3b6a73b08e2fb76bcb453e213d54ea9 SHA-1: bb2aae8677159e6e5cf0a5700e4cf6f2fa85d0f5 SHA-256: c45f3f7b833710f260a34af50e49fa90ad2a2c8b2cf56efefc9929d940c62a02
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.001 PowerShell

The file contains a Workbook_Open VBA macro that leverages CreateObject to execute Windows Script Host. The macro appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from a list of obfuscated URLs. The presence of Emotet-related ClamAV detection and the macro's behavior strongly suggest this family. The script reconstructs a long string of URLs, including 'http://youlanda.org/eln-image/n8DPZISf/', which is likely used for payload delivery.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.Emotet-ab81c42b2bd4747e-9951196-0
  • 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
faf50200d5a9adeeda00cc1da1bbf8f6abf0317a1e97a58db8ae804ba12ba446		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 13985 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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