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Briefing Malware - 19/04/2022

19th of April 2022 - Winners of the 16th week : Formbook, Redline and NjRAT.

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Threat statistics report

Publication date:

19/04/2022

Distribution :

TLP : WHITE  

What's new?

Emotet (ID Mitre: S0367)

Trends in the Recent Emotet Maldoc Outbreak

#Fortiguard Labs released a deep analysis of #Emotet malware campaign observed during last months.

All those campaigns started with malicious #Microsoft Office documents attached to #phishing emails. However, it has been observed that after the victim opens the attachment, there could be changes about the method used to drop #Emotet .

Taking advantage of hot topics like #Covid and #Ukrainian conflict or generic ones implying a forward or reply email, threat actors also use protected archive attachment with the password inside the body of the mail to give a fake security feeling about the file in attachment. Researchers also observed that threat actors often switch macro type from Visual Basic for Application (#VBA ) to #Excel v4.0 as they switch Office document type from #Word to #Excel type.

#Emotet is one of the most effective #botnets which has resurrected in mid-November after being taken down by law enforcement during Operation #LadyBird in the end of January 2021. The botnet which started as a #banking trojan is active since at least 2014, and operated by the threat actor #TA542 (aka #Mummy Spider ) and observed delivering payloads such as #Trickbot and #QBot dropping ransomware such as #Conti , #Ryuk or #Egregor .

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/Trends-in-the-recent-emotet-maldoc-outbreak

 

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