Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29886a0012a8317…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

144.0 KB Created: 2006-09-28 05:33:49 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 31102976b46f9eff5aef539f2ef2fe7c SHA-1: 9bb98e69c9b4dd4212e441456e3b8e95666c0274 SHA-256: d29886a0012a831700669d9d3f641e58bbccb0cee28a44617493815b6aa9e10c
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is a macro-enabled Excel document that triggers a Workbook_Open macro. This macro utilizes Wscript.Shell to execute a batch file and download payloads from multiple URLs. The reconstructed URL 'http://altheplane.com/wp-admin/ELwA8YcOqJn/' is a primary indicator of the download source. The presence of Wscript.Shell and CreateObject calls, along with the ClamAV detection, strongly suggests Emotet family activity, specifically a downloader variant.

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
022b6ea87e671715cd07f596eceb5d45e85534a367868a0e820c8aa5cb013822		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 6734 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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