Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d69139caa6a13306…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 63fce93029ad2d50edde950748ca57cd SHA-1: fb8e3a420eb84100a1744dd2ea771d68937e1cb6 SHA-256: d69139caa6a13306c168f16f4357e57f286c33dfdda47ca55e2f9adb4fdbd74d
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. The VBA macros contain obfuscated PowerShell commands that attempt to download and execute payloads from multiple URLs. Specifically, the script reconstructs the following download URLs: 'https://store.uxdummit.com/wp-admin/VfgB5Q7Z/', 'https://glorenental.com/wp-admn/f1ezaEKGTnS6i/', 'http://candise.bmintaractivroup.org/1g94ngo/2n7lJoPuPDaenPcX/', and 'http://b achilleatoropociclo.org/'. The script also references paths for batch and VBScript files in 'c:\programdata\'.

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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