Analysis

  • max time kernel
    100s
  • max time network
    46s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7v20210408
  • submitted
    27-07-2021 07:50

General

  • Target

    US 74,100.50 .xlsx

  • Size

    1.1MB

  • MD5

    b8e12d23fa9780efb407c51dd8a3767f

  • SHA1

    110487c60cd6507687a5d93b9fa2ce6e5dbd46b7

  • SHA256

    92f98059db2e215ef3ff991be89504eafea4e08c66753c9a480d03cdb0b9add9

  • SHA512

    01d11839f2339188490b518fd66baf7840c0b48d91891828107b74aa5e2ec9c5df0c8bb7b2a091e025ebbf62de47e73b7692fab62e1a9b4ee78e992cff4d0053

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

agenttesla

Credentials

  • Protocol:
    smtp
  • Host:
    mail.cisburo.com
  • Port:
    587
  • Username:
    elie@cisburo.com
  • Password:
    Essaab1967#

Signatures

  • AgentTesla

    Agent Tesla is a remote access tool (RAT) written in visual basic.

  • suricata: ET MALWARE Terse alphanumeric executable downloader high likelihood of being hostile
  • AgentTesla Payload 3 IoCs
  • Blocklisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.

  • Creates scheduled task(s) 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Launches Equation Editor 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Equation Editor is an old Office component often targeted by exploits such as CVE-2017-11882.

  • Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 9 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 17 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\US 74,100.50 .xlsx"
    1⤵
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:2032
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\EQNEDT32.EXE
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\EQNEDT32.EXE" -Embedding
    1⤵
    • Blocklisted process makes network request
    • Loads dropped DLL
    • Launches Equation Editor
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1676
    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1760
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\tnSAYdHPXvYHNv" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpDCA9.tmp"
        3⤵
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1864
      • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        "{path}"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:2040

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scripting

1
T1064

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Exploitation for Client Execution

1
T1203

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1060

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Defense Evasion

Scripting

1
T1064

Modify Registry

2
T1112

Discovery

System Information Discovery

2
T1082

Query Registry

1
T1012

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Downloads

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpDCA9.tmp
    MD5

    1604f75bfe2dd9d41d09ff62a6f81689

    SHA1

    9f8fc57042c7b600dd085877072202a72653eb09

    SHA256

    41a81af3cab9604bdfdfe5d971ea57d4d546601b960744dbac2881c6f88ca2cf

    SHA512

    b12d621f1cdca585e4ddae44ff235c704c4ba13a87b791a73dcd04629af9c9fbb5ee8e9aed5b4b7405789d16926a9cac14a8ee82acb941b5fca7865511fb81c2

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    MD5

    91be015e2c0c979a2a5b84fc81164538

    SHA1

    14b768716368e0dbbd188d2aad80eaff8340f912

    SHA256

    25ed1a3e7245151fbb0d15d7561a97be5d29c6571a8d6ccacfbaac4f22577f60

    SHA512

    adc479641a712764b71f26bc6f3f00c8e2959f29f645e8ed68a115a84afe583d7c72dcb47b99dc09007608c21cda27c99bc9946d3685fe486689dd8b4dd96c85

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    MD5

    91be015e2c0c979a2a5b84fc81164538

    SHA1

    14b768716368e0dbbd188d2aad80eaff8340f912

    SHA256

    25ed1a3e7245151fbb0d15d7561a97be5d29c6571a8d6ccacfbaac4f22577f60

    SHA512

    adc479641a712764b71f26bc6f3f00c8e2959f29f645e8ed68a115a84afe583d7c72dcb47b99dc09007608c21cda27c99bc9946d3685fe486689dd8b4dd96c85

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    MD5

    91be015e2c0c979a2a5b84fc81164538

    SHA1

    14b768716368e0dbbd188d2aad80eaff8340f912

    SHA256

    25ed1a3e7245151fbb0d15d7561a97be5d29c6571a8d6ccacfbaac4f22577f60

    SHA512

    adc479641a712764b71f26bc6f3f00c8e2959f29f645e8ed68a115a84afe583d7c72dcb47b99dc09007608c21cda27c99bc9946d3685fe486689dd8b4dd96c85

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    MD5

    91be015e2c0c979a2a5b84fc81164538

    SHA1

    14b768716368e0dbbd188d2aad80eaff8340f912

    SHA256

    25ed1a3e7245151fbb0d15d7561a97be5d29c6571a8d6ccacfbaac4f22577f60

    SHA512

    adc479641a712764b71f26bc6f3f00c8e2959f29f645e8ed68a115a84afe583d7c72dcb47b99dc09007608c21cda27c99bc9946d3685fe486689dd8b4dd96c85

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    MD5

    91be015e2c0c979a2a5b84fc81164538

    SHA1

    14b768716368e0dbbd188d2aad80eaff8340f912

    SHA256

    25ed1a3e7245151fbb0d15d7561a97be5d29c6571a8d6ccacfbaac4f22577f60

    SHA512

    adc479641a712764b71f26bc6f3f00c8e2959f29f645e8ed68a115a84afe583d7c72dcb47b99dc09007608c21cda27c99bc9946d3685fe486689dd8b4dd96c85

  • memory/1676-63-0x00000000754F1000-0x00000000754F3000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1760-66-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
  • memory/1760-76-0x0000000005030000-0x00000000050AE000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    504KB

  • memory/1760-69-0x00000000008A0000-0x00000000008A1000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    4KB

  • memory/1760-71-0x0000000004DB0000-0x0000000004DB1000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    4KB

  • memory/1760-72-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000402000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1760-77-0x0000000004C60000-0x0000000004C9B000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    236KB

  • memory/1864-78-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
  • memory/2032-74-0x00000000060E0000-0x0000000006D2A000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    12.3MB

  • memory/2032-73-0x00000000060E0000-0x0000000006D2A000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    12.3MB

  • memory/2032-75-0x00000000060E0000-0x0000000006D2A000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    12.3MB

  • memory/2032-60-0x000000002F691000-0x000000002F694000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    12KB

  • memory/2032-62-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2032-61-0x0000000070F81000-0x0000000070F83000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2032-86-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/2040-80-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043C000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    240KB

  • memory/2040-81-0x00000000004375EE-mapping.dmp
  • memory/2040-83-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043C000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    240KB

  • memory/2040-85-0x0000000004B10000-0x0000000004B11000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    4KB