Rewterz Threat Alert – Emotet – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Emotet was initially discovered in 2014 when it infected clients of German and Austrian institutions. Emotet serves as a downloader for other malware variants like TrickBot, QakBot, and IcedID. Phishing attempts are the most common way to propagate emotet trojan, which employs an email with malicious links or Macro-embedded Microsoft Word files. It has mostly been used to attack the banking industry. Emotet can launch several malware payloads depending on the target system after deployment. Emotet is frequently used as a downloader for other malware and is a particularly common delivery method for banking Trojans such as Qakbot and TrickBot. Emotet can steal data such as saved user passwords on the browser by eavesdropping on network traffic. Its modules focus on credential theft, email theft, and spamming.

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Emotet has been active for phishing emails, dropping malicious Word documents which enable macros when downloaded and executed. The malicious file suspected of being used as an attachment has the name form.xls.

Impact

• Credential Theft
• Information Theft
• Financial Loss

Indicators of Compromise

Filename

• form[.]xls

MD5

• df8a9c7763c49131eb36451b118eb465

SHA-256

• f208773a05c5f6e264f37f78c48173a009681f276074f177d15e12b464fed1a2

SHA-1

• 12aa3c31cb6bdd0242c66495646d44f60456275d

URL

• http[:]//church[.]ktc-center[.]net/PbSkdCOW/
• http[:]//chobemaster[.]com/components/gus/
• http[:]//church[.]ktc-center[.]net/PbSkdCOW/

Remediation

• Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
• Search for IOCs in your environment.