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Database Entry

Emotet (aka Heodo)

Vendor detections: 7

Intelligence 7 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	a5cefc7eb57545e36ce9f959ac252dd0901cbac2b6d83bae4a92daaef93f383a
SHA3-384 hash:	b47be1c3605f86760c13447ca03ec4ccbcd4bdd28102b0d296f71876bcde5903dc74c3232519a2545aa91ff0ae5ea429
SHA1 hash:	003ad6280d0da956b04a281c7a2426ae43a2a59f
MD5 hash:	6a9ff9bcdd4fce214fb279e99b4d13f9
humanhash:	mobile-fruit-avocado-item
File name:	DER20200924.doc
Download:	download sample
Signature	Heodo Create hunting rule
File size:	166'121 bytes
First seen:	2020-09-23 23:07:02 UTC
Last seen:	2020-09-26 23:13:02 UTC
File type:	doc
MIME type:	application/msword
ssdeep	3072:tJVffe3dY9jAcD22TWTogk079THcpOu5UZgSjxzEtZ8jgeNs:tjffe3S5D/TX07hHcJQxxz+Z0geNs
TLSH	8AF3D615A585BE75D9B009317A49EEE860E1DC0DDA3B810BF30EBF291B774D9D28E6C0
Reporter	GovCERT_CH
Tags:	Emotet Heodo

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

n/a

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.VBS.Obfus-121.UNOFFICIAL

MiscreantPunch.EvilMacro.PSEncode.171003.UNOFFICIAL

TwinWave.EvilDoc.WelcomeBackEmotetThatsWhyTheyCallItWindowPain.2020717.UNOFFICIAL

TwinWave.EvilDoc.EMOCROCreateRomanticWarrior.20200916.UNOFFICIAL

Doc.Dropper.EmotetOfficeWizard0920-9764982-0

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a window

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Creating a process with a hidden window

DNS request

Sending an HTTP GET request

Creating a file

Creating a process from a recently created file

Moving a file to the Windows subdirectory

Creating a service

Connection attempt

Sending an HTTP POST request

Deleting a recently created file

Enabling autorun for a service

Bypassing of proactive protection methods using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Launching a process by exploiting the app vulnerability

Result

Threat name:

Emotet

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

troj.evad

Score:

100 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/473849

Signature

Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample

Creates processes via WMI

Drops executables to the windows directory (C:\Windows) and starts them

Encrypted powershell cmdline option found

Found malware configuration

Hides that the sample has been downloaded from the Internet (zone.identifier)

Machine Learning detection for sample

Multi AV Scanner detection for domain / URL

Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Office document tries to convince victim to disable security protection (e.g. to enable ActiveX or Macros)

PowerShell case anomaly found

Powershell drops PE file

Very long command line found

Yara detected Emotet

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Detection:

emotet

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/a5cefc7eb57545e36ce9f959ac252dd0901cbac2b6d83bae4a92daaef93f383a/

Threat name:

Document-Word.Trojan.Emotet

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2020-09-23 23:08:06 UTC

AV detection:

19 of 29 (65.52%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Malicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=uxhpy7vvovc6g3hj7fm2yjjn2cibzowcw3mdxlskslnk56j7ha5a._file

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

8/10

Tags:

macro

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/200923-hx9sfffbps/

Behaviour

Suspicious Office macro

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Threat name:

Emotet

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/a5cefc7eb57545e36ce9f959ac252dd0901cbac2b6d83bae4a92daaef93f383a

YARA Signatures

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