Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    200s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-en-20211208
  • submitted
    09-02-2022 03:36

General

  • Target

    a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe

  • Size

    873KB

  • MD5

    a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3

  • SHA1

    9d9596b12d51e06dd1c509c3df0cb7432fb60156

  • SHA256

    0c70ff796c9a6c8e20437dcd29e1be3951ac7dae8bc0e75bbbae5b710c6be70e

  • SHA512

    34c94a9e432bb0d4e2154ca80d2a42bb47e4a3ff29a5ecb9d24eb4db235a3dfb7e6c532edb05bcb4a1e299c4b040e39d2c0eeeac8593e7b0babcdaf834e49a0e

Malware Config

Signatures

  • DcRat 19 IoCs

    DarkCrystal(DC) is a new .NET RAT active since June 2019 capable of loading additional plugins.

  • Process spawned unexpected child process 17 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 17 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 16 IoCs
  • Drops file in Program Files directory 7 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 7 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 17 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 17 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 21 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe"
    1⤵
    • DcRat
    • Adds Run key to start application
    • Drops file in System32 directory
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1616
    • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\26eGvL4Yp3.bat"
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1532
      • C:\Windows\system32\w32tm.exe
        w32tm /stripchart /computer:localhost /period:5 /dataonly /samples:2
        3⤵
          PID:992
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe"
          3⤵
          • Adds Run key to start application
          • Drops file in System32 directory
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1896
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe
            "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a77873bfea27896f94731478d64541a3.exe"
            4⤵
            • Adds Run key to start application
            • Drops file in System32 directory
            • Drops file in Program Files directory
            • Drops file in Windows directory
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:1620
            • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
              "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe3bVRSd9I.bat"
              5⤵
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:908
              • C:\Windows\system32\w32tm.exe
                w32tm /stripchart /computer:localhost /period:5 /dataonly /samples:2
                6⤵
                  PID:1012
                • C:\Windows\Offline Web Pages\csrss.exe
                  "C:\Windows\Offline Web Pages\csrss.exe"
                  6⤵
                  • Executes dropped EXE
                  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                  PID:1984
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "smss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Program Files\Uninstall Information\smss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:876
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "taskhost" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\ubpm\taskhost.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:440
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "explorer" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\msdfmap\explorer.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1820
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "taskhost" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows NT\taskhost.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1524
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "services" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\ProgramData\Documents\services.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1076
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "wininit" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\cero\wininit.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1112
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "csrss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\net1\csrss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1892
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "dwm" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\ProgramData\Start Menu\dwm.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1684
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "csrss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\Offline Web Pages\csrss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1500
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "Idle" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\Idle.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1648
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "csrss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\MSOCache\All Users\{90140000-0018-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}-C\csrss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1084
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "wininit" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\security\audit\wininit.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:2024
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "WMIADAP" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\wbem\powermeterprovider\WMIADAP.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1616
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "csrss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\mssprxy\csrss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:972
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "schtasks" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng\schtasks.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1472
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "csrss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\iprtrmgr\csrss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1700
      • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
        schtasks.exe /create /tn "winlogon" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\System32\KBDINORI\winlogon.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
        1⤵
        • DcRat
        • Process spawned unexpected child process
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:572

      Network

      MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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      Downloads

      • memory/1616-56-0x000000001AFF0000-0x000000001AFF2000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        8KB

      • memory/1616-55-0x0000000000B90000-0x0000000000C72000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        904KB

      • memory/1616-54-0x000007FEF5D03000-0x000007FEF5D04000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        4KB

      • memory/1620-61-0x000007FEF5313000-0x000007FEF5314000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        4KB

      • memory/1620-62-0x000000001AFA0000-0x000000001AFA2000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        8KB

      • memory/1896-59-0x000007FEF5313000-0x000007FEF5314000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        4KB

      • memory/1896-60-0x0000000000410000-0x0000000000412000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        8KB

      • memory/1896-58-0x0000000000D10000-0x0000000000DF2000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        904KB

      • memory/1984-66-0x00000000001A0000-0x0000000000282000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        904KB

      • memory/1984-68-0x000000001AF30000-0x000000001AF32000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        8KB

      • memory/1984-67-0x000007FEF5623000-0x000007FEF5624000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        4KB