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Database Entry

Emotet (aka Heodo)

Vendor detections: 7

Intelligence 7 IOCs YARA 3 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	aaf638c3b449f405cf5f255bed50fc0465623dbe6afff56e70598e3c6dbe3a5c
SHA3-384 hash:	40b8ce69b99dd7f598e68d16d1bee33d4db5f6cdb548c8b334a6f865def95b6231db2c7aec4156e4eb40fffc4a6edc9b
SHA1 hash:	9868d8c16fa0b10282bc2fab31fffe8b5d71c423
MD5 hash:	b88e1056240dea80dd78b57844f3ef9a
humanhash:	papa-papa-mike-cup
File name:	Doc-29541.doc
Download:	download sample
Signature	Heodo Create hunting rule
File size:	258'243 bytes
First seen:	2020-09-17 19:35:08 UTC
Last seen:	2020-09-17 19:44:34 UTC
File type:	doc
MIME type:	application/msword
ssdeep	3072:6Yy0u8YGgjv+ZvchmkHcI/o1/Vb6///////////////////////////////////9:C0uXnWFchmmcI/o1/T2yjRe
TLSH	2744170C64F6A816FE20F27117D9FAE99D08ACAF5A0F207634CF77595B75641BC832A0
Reporter	FORMALITYDE
Tags:	Emotet Heodo

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

n/a

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.VBS.Obfus-119.UNOFFICIAL

TwinWave.EvilDoc.WelcomeBackEmotetThatsWhyTheyCallItWindowPain.2020717.UNOFFICIAL

TwinWave.EvilDoc.EMOCROCreateRomanticWarrior.20200916.UNOFFICIAL

Doc.Dropper.EmotetRed0820-9543148-0

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/469495

Signature

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)

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 drops PE file

Snort IDS alert for network traffic (e.g. based on Emerging Threat rules)

Very long command line found

Yara detected Emotet

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Detection:

emotet

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/aaf638c3b449f405cf5f255bed50fc0465623dbe6afff56e70598e3c6dbe3a5c/

Threat name:

Document-Word.Trojan.Emotet

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2020-09-17 19:37:05 UTC

AV detection:

21 of 29 (72.41%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=vl3drq5ujh2alt27evn62uh4arswepn6nl77k3tqlghdy3n6hjoa._file

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

8/10

Tags:

macro

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/200917-bap6alsd2x/

Behaviour

Suspicious Office macro

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Threat name:

Emotet

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/aaf638c3b449f405cf5f255bed50fc0465623dbe6afff56e70598e3c6dbe3a5c

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:	ach_Heodo_doc_20200916 Create hunting rule
Author:	abuse.ch
Description:	Detects Heodo DOC

Rule name:	Cobalt_functions Create hunting rule
Author:	@j0sm1
Description:	Detect functions coded with ROR edi,D; Detect CobaltStrike used by differents groups APT

Rule name:	win_sisfader_auto Create hunting rule
Author:	Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com
Description:	autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator