Analysis

  • max time kernel
    110s
  • max time network
    114s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20220331-en
  • submitted
    07/04/2022, 07:49

General

  • Target
    R&B CI,PL 20220407 R-71 ocean.xlsx
  • Size 194KB
  • Sample220407-jnpfssaccj
  • SHA256 3781be41d032730640ebea013e01a0aa5cd3a785981bbead9d731ba8076212dc
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • lokibot

C2
  • http://85.202.169.172/remote/five/fre.php

  • http://kbfvzoboss.bid/alien/fre.php

  • http://alphastand.trade/alien/fre.php

  • http://alphastand.win/alien/fre.php

  • http://alphastand.top/alien/fre.php

Signatures

  • Lokibot

    Lokibot is a Password and CryptoCoin Wallet Stealer.

  • suricata: ET MALWARE LokiBot Checkin

    suricata: ET MALWARE LokiBot Checkin

  • suricata: ET MALWARE LokiBot User-Agent (Charon/Inferno)

    suricata: ET MALWARE LokiBot User-Agent (Charon/Inferno)

  • suricata: ET MALWARE MSIL/GenKryptik.FQRH Download Request

    suricata: ET MALWARE MSIL/GenKryptik.FQRH Download Request

  • suricata: ET MALWARE Terse alphanumeric executable downloader high likelihood of being hostile

    suricata: ET MALWARE Terse alphanumeric executable downloader high likelihood of being hostile

  • Blocklisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 1 IoCs
  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 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 31 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 64 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 26 IoCs
  • outlook_office_path 1 IoCs
  • outlook_win_path 1 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\R&B CI,PL 20220407 R-71 ocean.xlsx"
    1⤵
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:1660
  • 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:1244
    • 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:1448
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\GxJqeSgCZjuCVS.exe"
        3⤵
        • Drops file in System32 directory
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:1500
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\GxJqeSgCZjuCVS" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp339F.tmp"
        3⤵
        • Creates scheduled task(s)
        PID:1564
      • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:1328
      • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
        • outlook_office_path
        • outlook_win_path
        PID:1288

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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        Downloads

        tmp339F.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp339F.tmp
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 5e832343a9c0b7b3ac50bf113024b830b7c3d2138d0c23e2c72519504c188ac3
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        vbc.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        • Size 419KB
        • SHA256 651fdd3a68e818a3c0e5c87d8880d8a36fc18a5b39f9c5dec64f03243246cff5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        vbc.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        • Size 419KB
        • SHA256 651fdd3a68e818a3c0e5c87d8880d8a36fc18a5b39f9c5dec64f03243246cff5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        vbc.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        • Size 419KB
        • SHA256 651fdd3a68e818a3c0e5c87d8880d8a36fc18a5b39f9c5dec64f03243246cff5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        vbc.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        • Size 419KB
        • SHA256 651fdd3a68e818a3c0e5c87d8880d8a36fc18a5b39f9c5dec64f03243246cff5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        vbc.exe

        • Path \Users\Public\vbc.exe
        • Size 419KB
        • SHA256 651fdd3a68e818a3c0e5c87d8880d8a36fc18a5b39f9c5dec64f03243246cff5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        memory/1244-58-0x0000000075E31000-0x0000000075E33000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-78-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-80-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-75-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-73-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-72-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1288-77-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004A2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1448-64-0x0000000000350000-0x000000000035A000-memory.dmp

        memory/1448-70-0x0000000004330000-0x0000000004350000-memory.dmp

        memory/1448-63-0x00000000008B0000-0x0000000000920000-memory.dmp

        memory/1448-65-0x0000000005E00000-0x0000000005E62000-memory.dmp

        memory/1500-83-0x0000000066F10000-0x00000000674BB000-memory.dmp

        memory/1500-84-0x0000000002470000-0x00000000030BA000-memory.dmp

        memory/1660-57-0x000000007295D000-0x0000000072968000-memory.dmp

        memory/1660-55-0x0000000071971000-0x0000000071973000-memory.dmp

        memory/1660-56-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp

        memory/1660-54-0x000000002F701000-0x000000002F704000-memory.dmp

        memory/1660-85-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp