Emotet is a threat we have been tracking very closely throughout the year thanks to its large email distribution campaigns. Once again, and for about two months the botnet stopped its malspam activity only to return days before Christmas.
In typical Emotet fashion, the threat actors continue to alternate between different phishing lures whose goal is to social engineer users into enabling macros. However, in this latest iteration the Emotet gang is loading its payload as a DLL along with a fake error message.
