Emotet — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3df6ce0ed569da7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

115.1 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 12.0000
MD5: 0d9523e0b80c5716ca9783819b2c6c24 SHA-1: cad6b222917ad862c7870978f76cf24e9d5dc8fe SHA-256: f3df6ce0ed569da77973a5997b22a84adaa2e5b25837188ab8a0d22824808e06
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

This XLSX file contains a Workbook_Open macro that executes obfuscated PowerShell commands. The script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://sumedahonline.com/wp-content/HyzNXJ30XQVBSRH/'. The presence of a Workbook_Open macro and the nature of the payload strongly indicate the Emotet family. The ClamAV detection also confirms this.

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
f42761a1c05f4c77b7f461a1139e8cff366fe5f95e336c7bf8d408b271b6d4d6
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.