General

  • Target

    New-Order December-15th.xlsx

  • Size

    2.3MB

  • Sample

    201215-6y9fpc37ea

  • MD5

    e03ed5e77e5800540f0448a8318eaf34

  • SHA1

    56af39d425961607df89dabb30480038828701c0

  • SHA256

    3994471e828d2d7e89e3c7c07ef01662173333700ac9dc14461b3e418cb75db7

  • SHA512

    4d26a232dd177a2670fc4272823d7de3feb30e06d9970b331c02e1b299df5dca7811e4ccae707cb4b5018d8b08af70ca2b265fe1fde5a0650ebb9e54ae01eb76

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target

      New-Order December-15th.xlsx

    • Size

      2.3MB

    • MD5

      e03ed5e77e5800540f0448a8318eaf34

    • SHA1

      56af39d425961607df89dabb30480038828701c0

    • SHA256

      3994471e828d2d7e89e3c7c07ef01662173333700ac9dc14461b3e418cb75db7

    • SHA512

      4d26a232dd177a2670fc4272823d7de3feb30e06d9970b331c02e1b299df5dca7811e4ccae707cb4b5018d8b08af70ca2b265fe1fde5a0650ebb9e54ae01eb76

    • NetWire RAT payload

    • Netwire

      Netwire is a RAT with main functionalities focused password stealing and keylogging, but also includes remote control capabilities as well.

    • Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry

    • Blocklisted process makes network request

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Looks for VMWare Tools registry key

    • Modifies Installed Components in the registry

    • Checks BIOS information in registry

      BIOS information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

    • Loads dropped DLL

    • Uses the VBS compiler for execution

    • Adds Run key to start application

    • Maps connected drives based on registry

      Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scripting

1
T1064

Exploitation for Client Execution

1
T1203

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

2
T1060

Defense Evasion

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2
T1497

Modify Registry

3
T1112

Scripting

1
T1064

Discovery

Query Registry

6
T1012

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2
T1497

System Information Discovery

4
T1082

Peripheral Device Discovery

1
T1120

Tasks