Emotet — Office (OLE) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc362a4f3b63a328…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLSX

151.5 KB Created: 2015-06-05 18:17:20 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel
MD5: 4401b486421efa12eddfbd9c12a84696 SHA-1: bd4b82cef714e5308b9ebd314cc6052c14779678 SHA-256: fc362a4f3b63a328e375102fe7b703a4ac8fb8128af04f3cc5f076a92f194a61
280 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Emotet · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Doc.Downloader.EmotetExcel02222-9938901-0', strongly suggesting the Emotet family. The VBA macros contain a Workbook_Open auto-execution event that uses CreateObject to instantiate Wscript.Shell. This script then constructs and writes a batch file to 'c:\programdata\jledshf.bat' and a VBScript to 'c:\programdata\tghklsd.vbs'. The VBScript appears to download payloads from multiple URLs, including 'http://store.uxdummmit.com/wp-admin/VfgBA5Q7Z/'. This indicates the file acts as a downloader for further malicious stages.

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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