Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d80e81ca99d0d302…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

129.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 78677c56f562968bc7a12e37f605bf74 SHA-1: f741254fb49aef9b65c49211fe854f50a7237f93 SHA-256: d80e81ca99d0d302230402c9840ce5f73d64d50893d60c0cabf05d018f5a7a36
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 90%

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

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open auto-execution routine, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script utilizes Wscript.Shell to execute commands and create files, including 'yhjlswle.vbs' and 'ughldskbhn.bat' in the 'c:\programdata' directory. The script also attempts to download payloads from multiple URLs, including a reconstructed URL: 'http://santoftorilab.com/_baks/tUX9/http://donbaham.com/Home_files/YS0PZapXyerase/,http://barnhart-studies.com/eln-images/vggh1ng/,http://blut.com/3dtech/jLu8IAnnj3gK9WC/,http://zenzebra.net/plath/9Q0DBle/,http://realacorp.net/PhotoGallery/Uw mRHceSGbaCeGF/,http://miniflam.com/eln-images/fSwbQjU M AfGxdw/,http://marezdecor.com/MarezGallery/sEQxW TpMJ7cA8rAtY/http'. This indicates a downloader functionality.

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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