Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9741a83337b9f11…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

92.0 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 356f48a7195f5015874bba56a40e9f1d SHA-1: a971b97a294f2280a8dd62657996ddd2a7b766ff SHA-256: e9741a83337b9f11c5524149e511de83ad18dd88186aab2ecac46184053d78be
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated PowerShell commands. These commands are designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs. The ClamAV detection name 'Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0' strongly suggests the Emotet family. The embedded PowerShell commands reconstruct the following URL: 'http://haarehoupuroducts.com/Merchandise2/ARSf1LIcOauhH1rDiR/', and also specify the execution of 'c:\programdata\yhjlswle.vbs' and 'c:\programdata\ughldskbhn.bat'.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Downloader.EmotetRed02221-9938910-0
  • 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
de7bcbc45ff0a77d05d9af662bacc316e71be11a980e94f6673e556a5dd9d1bc
vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 12808 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
2997b2e38dbacbde9ccb439644704e1765b80ecfac540610f2a751c99c5fb4ef
vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 37888 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.