Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eccefcad44260254…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: f55a304ca25d587cc4b4cbeaa8575b6f SHA-1: 4d0d39e59c85b29f851613a524889b3daa0f9232 SHA-256: eccefcad4426025405457904f69d71a4b7821bbacabf4fe06850955b388d019c
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is detected as Emotet by ClamAV and contains a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated PowerShell commands. These commands are designed to download and execute a batch file (c:\programdata\jledshf.bat) and a VBScript (c:\programdata\tghklsd.vbs). The PowerShell command also includes multiple URLs from which the malicious payloads are likely to be downloaded.

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
d3a80b9071e5eb297d19d414f88d2138dddaad3bdc77a55b6a334336a8d9c5c8
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.