Analysis

  • max time kernel
    152s
  • max time network
    159s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-en-20211014
  • submitted
    21-10-2021 06:14

General

  • Target

    BM09 INV.PL.xlsx

  • Size

    369KB

  • MD5

    b03819cd2356392079a49fa5f0477ff9

  • SHA1

    c6d295042dbad6daa7eccedddd354f9e90643b31

  • SHA256

    0b9c4c0a71c0262d0af9cabc0b3cdc179ed4114e0ede23afce8342f48714adbb

  • SHA512

    15ccab47909ffbe46f7cc995d36d93191cf1e541cf6653ad771dd869b71a9eb3d321dc5c0569064dc2feceb40e495ea19aba1c71c055b62a4fcb7dc3f99ccf5e

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

xloader

Version

2.5

Campaign

ons6

C2

http://www.parasitevhs.net/ons6/

Decoy

946acc.net

ilkermulla.com

edificationhub.com

aptbaby.com

luisrgonzalez.com

postandpine.com

objective-object.com

storeydrive.rentals

mobile-find.com

africanbridaluk.com

zzjn12.xyz

ritechoiceinvestmentgroup.com

zitzies.xyz

trulyproofreading.com

ktndetermine.xyz

advertising.land

keywordgomuwk.xyz

niecliomusicspirit.com

lhortelecom.com

cryptochieftan.com

Signatures

  • Xloader

    Xloader is a rebranded version of Formbook malware.

  • suricata: ET MALWARE FormBook CnC Checkin (GET)

    suricata: ET MALWARE FormBook CnC Checkin (GET)

  • suricata: ET MALWARE Possible Malicious Macro DL EXE Feb 2016

    suricata: ET MALWARE Possible Malicious Macro DL EXE Feb 2016

  • Xloader Payload 4 IoCs
  • Blocklisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 4 IoCs
  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 4 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • NSIS installer 12 IoCs
  • 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 31 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 26 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 19 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    1⤵
    • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
    PID:1300
    • 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\BM09 INV.PL.xlsx"
      2⤵
      • Enumerates system info in registry
      • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
      • Modifies registry class
      • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      PID:1700
  • 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:660
    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1928
      • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1280
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmmon32.exe
          "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmmon32.exe"
          4⤵
          • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1964
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
            /c del "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
            5⤵
              PID:1168

    Network

    MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

    Execution

    Scripting

    1
    T1064

    Exploitation for Client Execution

    1
    T1203

    Defense Evasion

    Scripting

    1
    T1064

    Modify Registry

    1
    T1112

    Discovery

    System Information Discovery

    2
    T1082

    Query Registry

    1
    T1012

    Replay Monitor

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    Downloads

    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsy44FD.tmp\rnzyao.dll
      MD5

      70e70786ba2215991447cbbf5706f54f

      SHA1

      5477a0ec6586cff23039a387f3a1c8968a945d6d

      SHA256

      cc86b72fe9369a197c80b38555433c296e0e46808b74d75ad719799087642be0

      SHA512

      35471023269d350004827ee5565804eaddf01f75ecfa4944e339ae8ec1dd73470a3b11301b00739bd924de1fda9bd2d03d1437455fe78dace83bb6dadd9fda9a

    • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
      MD5

      5e9c6466f89089a73465bec3e84f6731

      SHA1

      7faa635ff81bf5a1ff5b56109f9d0a7088b5c1d1

      SHA256

      7d1119a09c3f150ab964941c3a539fa3d1257cdb980df7e1535012378ae3974e

      SHA512

      84241a9a1d1e700c52a736cf9d1225300c4d5c14485533aa08429b2c01f0d712067ba90c334ec474f997d8686e8433b08d1e5c925b6aeda6892c71cd17ad842b

    • memory/660-58-0x00000000758C1000-0x00000000758C3000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      8KB

    • memory/1168-78-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
    • memory/1280-75-0x0000000000580000-0x0000000000591000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      68KB

    • memory/1280-67-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      164KB

    • memory/1280-68-0x000000000041D400-mapping.dmp
    • memory/1280-71-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000C53000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      3.0MB

    • memory/1280-72-0x00000000003C0000-0x00000000003D1000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      68KB

    • memory/1280-74-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      164KB

    • memory/1300-83-0x0000000006440000-0x000000000658F000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      1.3MB

    • memory/1300-76-0x00000000072B0000-0x00000000073BE000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      1.1MB

    • memory/1300-73-0x00000000070D0000-0x00000000071F4000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      1.1MB

    • memory/1700-56-0x00000000719F1000-0x00000000719F3000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      8KB

    • memory/1700-55-0x000000002F601000-0x000000002F604000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      12KB

    • memory/1700-57-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      64KB

    • memory/1700-84-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      64KB

    • memory/1928-62-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
    • memory/1964-77-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
    • memory/1964-80-0x0000000000080000-0x00000000000A9000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      164KB

    • memory/1964-81-0x0000000002100000-0x0000000002403000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      3.0MB

    • memory/1964-79-0x0000000000CF0000-0x0000000000CFD000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      52KB

    • memory/1964-82-0x0000000000890000-0x0000000000920000-memory.dmp
      Filesize

      576KB