Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e134be8e8d06750e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 534f748768d017ec412010dcd80c5f77 SHA-1: 1dba2090898f93011ea24d4f9ec8c128be1c41de SHA-256: e134be8e8d06750e35aa40bd07f803f10b81771922b3359bad340c42ea515d69
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel document with a Workbook_Open macro, identified by ClamAV as Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to execute a batch file and a VBScript, both located in c:\programdata. The script content reveals it attempts to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedahonline.com/wp-content/hYzNXJ30XQFEVBSRH/'. This indicates a downloader functionality aiming to fetch and execute further malicious content.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetExcel02223-9938902-0
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • CreateObject call high OLE_VBA_CREATEOBJ
    CreateObject call
  • 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 project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12041 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
bcadea0163fb3048fa9b0cd735e016ed4b7b78226cddf2772cab420e0e8698dd
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 42496 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.