Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d988a82f0c70af93…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

150.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 14aefd7b82cf83ea51ec7770904e8ff3 SHA-1: 11b379485c30cef5df8ec0fd9e66310991dda044 SHA-256: d988a82f0c70af93eec65964be25fe728f1f57991fa5f7045b5a42e752033dae
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is a malicious Excel document containing a Workbook_Open VBA macro. This macro uses Wscript.Shell to execute a batch file, 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. The batch file contains obfuscated commands that appear to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The presence of Wscript.Shell, CreateObject, and the Workbook_Open auto-execution strongly indicate a downloader functionality, consistent with the Emotet family.

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
006c4f4d54d1c9bb906763adb0bd849cdbbe9d88f3fa78ad2d18ef6987f96c37		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 8906 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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