Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d22ac2aaa0f88bc7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 6441bcad7e0b92e58f8447839817b329 SHA-1: 42e4b8a3358d17b6d48fe7e390936361580f5eef SHA-256: d22ac2aaa0f88bc7fab1d8c7f0d443505fc26150b8028bb955ed2521c9f7c609
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution macro, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script utilizes `CreateObject` to instantiate `Wscript.Shell` and then executes obfuscated PowerShell commands. These commands reconstruct multiple URLs and attempt to download and execute payloads from them. The reconstructed URLs are: 'https://store.uxdumm.com/wp-admin/VfgBASQ7Z/', 'https://glorenental.com/wp-admin/f1ezEAJG TnS6I/', 'http://candise.bmintractivegroup.org/1g94ngo/2n7lJoPuPDaXpX/', and 'http://bacihle Ratoropociclo.org/'. Additionally, it writes two files to disk: '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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