Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd382c6f20a285c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

150.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: c64c5a3e6039f2eb183ccb89ed5092cb SHA-1: 3213e757971d365c0bd1047c4f2439e4bb980108 SHA-256: fbd382c6f20a285c3591c57de7fb3b618a291385f7ba86bfc1769aa520d1a41d
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

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

The file is a macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet with a Workbook_Open macro that executes a Windows Script Host object. The script attempts to create a scheduled task and download a payload from multiple URLs, including 'http://actividades.laforetlanguages.com/wp-admin/BlkdOXlX/'. The presence of Wscript.Shell and CreateObject calls, along with the ClamAV detection name 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02226-9938630-0', strongly suggests Emotet family activity. The script also reconstructs a registry path for persistence: 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IAccessible2Proxy'.

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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