Emotet Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis — malicious · e2f333a3ab9fc8f0

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000

MD5: bde6360fede493299893d217e8a4abd1 SHA-1: bd1bba523ea3df670b374c216defc8db06e3bac6 SHA-256: e2f333a3ab9fc8f001df269a0c6f8b1f0ba1bdfc313446d92d6b61d1ee11e19d

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.005 Visual Basic T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel document containing VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is a common delivery mechanism for Emotet. The script executes obfuscated PowerShell commands to download and run a second-stage payload. The reconstructed PowerShell command includes multiple URLs from which the payload can be downloaded, and the script also creates batch and VBScript files in the programdata directory.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`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` `557829ba78819db04dc4944bd87eb9c38bd97b7035e113882e514b7991c5132e`	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.

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