Malware Analysis Report

2024-12-07 22:06

Sample ID 220323-lkdw1agbek
Target fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92
SHA256 fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92
Tags
sakula persistence rat suricata trojan
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V6

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92

Threat Level: Known bad

The file fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92 was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

sakula persistence rat suricata trojan

Sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 6

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 7

Executes dropped EXE

Deletes itself

Loads dropped DLL

Adds Run key to start application

Modifies registry key

Runs ping.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2022-03-23 09:35

Signatures

N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-03-23 09:35

Reported

2022-03-23 09:42

Platform

win7-20220310-en

Max time kernel

4294201s

Max time network

150s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

Signatures

Sakula

trojan rat sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 6

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 7

suricata

Executes dropped EXE

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe N/A

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe N/A

Adds Run key to start application

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MicroMedia = "C:\\Users\\Admin\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\MicroMedia\\MediaCenter.exe" C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A

Modifies registry key

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A

Runs ping.exe

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1700 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1700 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1700 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1700 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1296 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 1700 wrote to memory of 1028 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 1700 wrote to memory of 1028 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 1700 wrote to memory of 1028 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 1700 wrote to memory of 1028 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1256 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1256 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1256 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1452 wrote to memory of 1256 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1256 wrote to memory of 1668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1256 wrote to memory of 1668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1256 wrote to memory of 1668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1256 wrote to memory of 1668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "MicroMedia" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe

reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "MicroMedia" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c ping 127.0.0.1 & del "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

ping 127.0.0.1

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 www.we11point.com udp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp

Files

memory/1452-54-0x0000000074DE1000-0x0000000074DE3000-memory.dmp

memory/1452-55-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040A000-memory.dmp

memory/1700-56-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

MD5 f25d83105f98df2e269cf5a5c0d60a95
SHA1 5b9790a7f2eca5da695c215863b491cd9792d457
SHA256 49178a2d9d5ec6d8f71b762b88e42fc1322973eee9bd5b9dd4699b43dc40ecce
SHA512 933e83619fa320b627a76f16cc0ec9293dbcd65a6fbf1fded92e83166576c6569f1f62f709f739bbdfc14cbe4b378d0305503d61cd6c574decbc786dfbc3eb30

memory/1296-59-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

MD5 f25d83105f98df2e269cf5a5c0d60a95
SHA1 5b9790a7f2eca5da695c215863b491cd9792d457
SHA256 49178a2d9d5ec6d8f71b762b88e42fc1322973eee9bd5b9dd4699b43dc40ecce
SHA512 933e83619fa320b627a76f16cc0ec9293dbcd65a6fbf1fded92e83166576c6569f1f62f709f739bbdfc14cbe4b378d0305503d61cd6c574decbc786dfbc3eb30

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

MD5 f25d83105f98df2e269cf5a5c0d60a95
SHA1 5b9790a7f2eca5da695c215863b491cd9792d457
SHA256 49178a2d9d5ec6d8f71b762b88e42fc1322973eee9bd5b9dd4699b43dc40ecce
SHA512 933e83619fa320b627a76f16cc0ec9293dbcd65a6fbf1fded92e83166576c6569f1f62f709f739bbdfc14cbe4b378d0305503d61cd6c574decbc786dfbc3eb30

memory/1028-62-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1296-63-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040A000-memory.dmp

memory/1256-64-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1668-65-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-03-23 09:35

Reported

2022-03-23 09:42

Platform

win10v2004-20220310-en

Max time kernel

141s

Max time network

163s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

Signatures

Sakula

trojan rat sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 6

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 7

suricata

Executes dropped EXE

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe N/A

Adds Run key to start application

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MicroMedia = "C:\\Users\\Admin\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\MicroMedia\\MediaCenter.exe" C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A

Modifies registry key

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe N/A

Runs ping.exe

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 3048 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 3048 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 3048 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 1180 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 1180 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 1180 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 3048 wrote to memory of 1656 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 3048 wrote to memory of 1656 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 3048 wrote to memory of 1656 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 2556 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 2556 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 2556 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2556 wrote to memory of 1160 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 2556 wrote to memory of 1160 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 2556 wrote to memory of 1160 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "MicroMedia" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe

reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "MicroMedia" /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c ping 127.0.0.1 & del "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fc8a589a472b3c37bf0ce3d266108e7f51dcaa2493e5f250f1af8c3e2c795c92.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

ping 127.0.0.1

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 209.197.3.8:80 tcp
US 93.184.220.29:80 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 licensing.mp.microsoft.com udp
US 20.96.63.25:443 licensing.mp.microsoft.com tcp
US 20.189.173.11:443 tcp
NL 104.110.191.140:80 tcp
NL 104.110.191.140:80 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 storesdk.dsx.mp.microsoft.com udp
NL 104.80.225.205:443 storesdk.dsx.mp.microsoft.com tcp
US 20.96.63.25:443 licensing.mp.microsoft.com tcp
US 20.96.63.25:443 licensing.mp.microsoft.com tcp
US 20.96.63.25:443 licensing.mp.microsoft.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 www.we11point.com udp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp
US 204.11.56.48:443 www.we11point.com tcp

Files

memory/3872-134-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040A000-memory.dmp

memory/3048-135-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1180-136-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

MD5 8f6c3aa814fbc4c24fcd4b65f0c199db
SHA1 00da63e776df1ed6599b99d7590bfd0a4ab3d323
SHA256 b0ec60dc83c9aec349eac46ff6d23ef8ed2c64658eca11679d6c03a9ebb40023
SHA512 549fa7565730b7dfb3f7293889b1186ce30595f3147603b6b316aba725072bd84e211636cd1706b5fd396a1d6b49c7ab20c1b0bfe9c48dd6f2de72b5ab46896d

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe

MD5 8f6c3aa814fbc4c24fcd4b65f0c199db
SHA1 00da63e776df1ed6599b99d7590bfd0a4ab3d323
SHA256 b0ec60dc83c9aec349eac46ff6d23ef8ed2c64658eca11679d6c03a9ebb40023
SHA512 549fa7565730b7dfb3f7293889b1186ce30595f3147603b6b316aba725072bd84e211636cd1706b5fd396a1d6b49c7ab20c1b0bfe9c48dd6f2de72b5ab46896d

memory/1656-139-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/2556-140-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1160-141-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp