Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f075e88e63c0df16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

150.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: ce1eed2f6596427516e6934537f83892 SHA-1: 71180ba5c3e01ed9188454b8b7c8ae8b31391609 SHA-256: f075e88e63c0df16805b62de8b7b7180ede2a180f4daf0caa52c25bf1b676a20
280 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

This Microsoft Excel file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The script attempts to create and execute a batch file named 'jledshf.bat' located in 'c:\programdata\'. The script also contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that appear to download and execute payloads from multiple URLs. The presence of 'Wscript.Shell' and 'CreateObject' calls further indicates malicious intent to execute arbitrary code.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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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