Malware Analysis Report

2025-08-05 21:39

Sample ID 221110-mlgvqahaf5
Target 0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls
SHA256 0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497
Tags
macro xlm emotet epoch5 banker persistence trojan
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V6

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro xlm emotet epoch5 banker persistence trojan

Emotet

Process spawned unexpected child process

Suspicious Office macro

Downloads MZ/PE file

Loads dropped DLL

Adds Run key to start application

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2022-11-10 10:33

Signatures

Suspicious Office macro

macro xlm
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-11-10 10:33

Reported

2022-11-10 10:35

Platform

win10-20220812-en

Max time kernel

128s

Max time network

147s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls"

Signatures

Checks processor information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Enumerates system info in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemFamily C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

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\0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls"

Network

Files

memory/3860-116-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-117-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-118-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-119-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-128-0x00007FFEE7DF0000-0x00007FFEE7E00000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-129-0x00007FFEE7DF0000-0x00007FFEE7E00000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-306-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-307-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-308-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3860-309-0x00007FFEEABE0000-0x00007FFEEABF0000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-11-10 10:33

Reported

2022-11-10 10:35

Platform

win10-20220812-en

Max time kernel

144s

Max time network

147s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls"

Signatures

Emotet

trojan banker emotet

Process spawned unexpected child process

Description Indicator Process Target
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE

Downloads MZ/PE file

Loads dropped DLL

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe N/A

Adds Run key to start application

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\qWQxStM.dll = "C:\\Windows\\system32\\regsvr32.exe \"C:\\Windows\\system32\\FzemTQqqW\\qWQxStM.dll\"" C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\jGSCkVwt.dll = "C:\\Windows\\system32\\regsvr32.exe \"C:\\Windows\\system32\\SgWxBJuxRnchHOpo\\jGSCkVwt.dll\"" C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\EwLNHjcZ.dll = "C:\\Windows\\system32\\regsvr32.exe \"C:\\Windows\\system32\\GlBqOEuGi\\EwLNHjcZ.dll\"" C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe N/A

Checks processor information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Enumerates system info in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemFamily C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 3664 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 3664 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3664 wrote to memory of 4356 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3664 wrote to memory of 4356 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 3536 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 3536 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3536 wrote to memory of 4460 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3536 wrote to memory of 4460 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 300 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 300 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 768 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 3668 wrote to memory of 768 N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe
PID 768 wrote to memory of 204 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe
PID 768 wrote to memory of 204 N/A C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

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\0a8ddb6313292d0c7ce3f8c6336d8b960f855bb50b5a1a34619682e0bccc2497.xls"

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe /S ..\elv1.ooocccxxx

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Windows\system32\FzemTQqqW\qWQxStM.dll"

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe /S ..\elv2.ooocccxxx

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Windows\system32\SgWxBJuxRnchHOpo\jGSCkVwt.dll"

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe /S ..\elv3.ooocccxxx

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe /S ..\elv4.ooocccxxx

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32.exe "C:\Windows\system32\GlBqOEuGi\EwLNHjcZ.dll"

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 www.conceptagency.net udp
DE 149.102.137.213:443 www.conceptagency.net tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 bencevendeghaz.hu udp
HU 185.6.139.30:443 bencevendeghaz.hu tcp
SG 45.32.114.141:80 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 ruitaiwz.com udp
HK 45.207.116.84:80 ruitaiwz.com tcp
ID 115.178.55.22:80 115.178.55.22 tcp
US 52.182.143.211:443 tcp
ID 115.178.55.22:80 115.178.55.22 tcp
US 209.197.3.8:80 tcp
ID 115.178.55.22:80 115.178.55.22 tcp

Files

memory/3668-118-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-119-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-120-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-121-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-130-0x00007FFE2EE10000-0x00007FFE2EE20000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-131-0x00007FFE2EE10000-0x00007FFE2EE20000-memory.dmp

memory/3664-262-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\elv1.ooocccxxx

MD5 287abecca3fd35d9f3ed53f4f7377c7e
SHA1 4d1693f6b31d926633e8a7e349fee96c4e60120b
SHA256 6426c9c4829f9e4ec0ce794317153e46cb6b74050b74197c9a588fa7d3de679c
SHA512 348f77291ee436dcf5e0de2da792b1d9e6c0daf1fb925122ed06984bf14f21d909b14dd6d3096fc229143c2d2562f1f57ea159db9d4f4ec717602943780ab385

\Users\Admin\elv1.ooocccxxx

MD5 287abecca3fd35d9f3ed53f4f7377c7e
SHA1 4d1693f6b31d926633e8a7e349fee96c4e60120b
SHA256 6426c9c4829f9e4ec0ce794317153e46cb6b74050b74197c9a588fa7d3de679c
SHA512 348f77291ee436dcf5e0de2da792b1d9e6c0daf1fb925122ed06984bf14f21d909b14dd6d3096fc229143c2d2562f1f57ea159db9d4f4ec717602943780ab385

memory/3664-265-0x00000000028D0000-0x00000000028FE000-memory.dmp

memory/4356-275-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3536-281-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\elv2.ooocccxxx

MD5 e13fecff6dc982531324cdba4f224d1d
SHA1 0de9ca7b8770ce588684237d2739d456bc64dade
SHA256 78b7f834255ee4c7e897393c70172de692415c784bcaeedf1cd304fe1ce401e0
SHA512 0e159d00676d286d104631f80a1989e308037fde82ddae495628866a1ad49059705fb9c47d7f612a108bbbb0d3f540695782dec3c4b389a56c4ac91a28a8653b

\Users\Admin\elv2.ooocccxxx

MD5 e13fecff6dc982531324cdba4f224d1d
SHA1 0de9ca7b8770ce588684237d2739d456bc64dade
SHA256 78b7f834255ee4c7e897393c70172de692415c784bcaeedf1cd304fe1ce401e0
SHA512 0e159d00676d286d104631f80a1989e308037fde82ddae495628866a1ad49059705fb9c47d7f612a108bbbb0d3f540695782dec3c4b389a56c4ac91a28a8653b

memory/4460-292-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/300-300-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/768-301-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\elv4.ooocccxxx

MD5 d116dbcd3054af5ebab5374c82d51952
SHA1 3c84bc88251a196328d46f61051fd78c31db4a1d
SHA256 292a2fd7687179531f2c92eb70c3399f1100450689ba338f5be57ab8bee176f8
SHA512 d907482458586b1bba5bfe4792dec2d7932a8034eb1bcdc765407beda481a9f50a8aca775222be128cf92eb9ccb3fae5e223876e9d4571fcbcb795ad26df7ace

\Users\Admin\elv4.ooocccxxx

MD5 d116dbcd3054af5ebab5374c82d51952
SHA1 3c84bc88251a196328d46f61051fd78c31db4a1d
SHA256 292a2fd7687179531f2c92eb70c3399f1100450689ba338f5be57ab8bee176f8
SHA512 d907482458586b1bba5bfe4792dec2d7932a8034eb1bcdc765407beda481a9f50a8aca775222be128cf92eb9ccb3fae5e223876e9d4571fcbcb795ad26df7ace

memory/204-309-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3668-339-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-340-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-341-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp

memory/3668-342-0x00007FFE31BE0000-0x00007FFE31BF0000-memory.dmp