Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf13c77e1ee55260…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: bd2e1efb79a9a3a27f1354efff5fa449 SHA-1: c4a434151cff60747bfc2d438a77b2194d476ceb SHA-256: cf13c77e1ee5526043ffcf77a76b2fdf0daf3160d65ee56b802ff5ce0d1b5785
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload using Wscript.Shell. It reconstructs the following URLs for the payload download: "http://fullness-safeaty.com/-/P6x/", "https://nabajyotifundation.com/da8uc7jo/4Za/", "http://dwmaster.com/wp-conten/eBH2UFY2/", "http://formula8020.com/cs/56Dzi0P/", "https://calad-formation.fr/r3x94z/kgZ9OGCi/", and "http://lis". It also attempts to drop and execute files named 'yhjlswle.vbs' and 'ughldskbhn.bat' in the 'c:\programdata\' directory.

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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