Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLS malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fafd41152a6fa1c1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 22413b93cd51b5d60935e3de7080fd12 SHA-1: 0ab1fd3f725cb75f5bc3863e27423ac590c7b34e SHA-256: fafd41152a6fa1c17ab87beabec2ba74c4e05bf48b5869d38353e67120a7cf69
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file contains VBA macros, specifically a Workbook_Open macro, which is a common technique for Emotet. The macro uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell and then executes a batch file located at 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat'. This batch file appears to be responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from one of the provided URLs. The presence of Wscript.Shell references and the execution of a batch file strongly indicate a downloader functionality.

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
c49f2df77c50e10269216d97c3efdf7c32f9f18ba5d8fd42a9b144f48e100040		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 5709 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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