Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce17a77efd4cba9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

134.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c4894afd050eafe6568e9e03f8a1a82d SHA-1: 26f14d32d89d95d46eb64d10c272f40ca139caf2 SHA-256: ce17a77efd4cba9d55ae31147beaa60b750d6e36620499cb910b45dfe407c1d7
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains a Workbook_Open macro that utilizes Wscript.Shell and CreateObject to download and execute a second-stage payload. The macro attempts to download from multiple URLs, including the reconstructed URL 'http://taste-download.com/cgi-bin/bin/14LG3P2D3rqBmaYZbO/'. This behavior is characteristic of Emotet downloaders, which are known to deliver further malware.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0
  • 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
0682b1dabb01229c8492cae5e8f124b2428b3f7af0a3adfd56447b0856c75734		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6592 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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