Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cabff08c326fd2d8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: d5ee06cfadf7d4dbd0ac59d32114c51e SHA-1: fa49566106a1453bb84b2737a6065b14a92cf15c SHA-256: cabff08c326fd2d86124f707970ee19ba1c36a1e74bfeb30e086d30755c5718c
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0', indicating it's likely an Emotet downloader. The Workbook_Open macro fires, and the script contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that attempt to download and execute payloads from multiple URLs. Specifically, the script reconstructs the following URLs for payload download: 'http://store.uxdummmit.com/wp-admin/VfgBASQ7Z/', 'http://glowerntals.com/wp-admin/f1zezAKGTnS6I/', 'http://candise.biminteractivroup.org/1g9ngo/2n7wJoPuPDaenPx/', and 'http://bachilleatoropociclo.org/'. It also references temporary file paths 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and 'c:\programdata\tghklsd.vbs'.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0
  • 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
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12041 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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