Malware Analysis Report

2025-01-02 02:58

Sample ID 220510-3sy1ksdcfr
Target 99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876
SHA256 99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876
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

99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876 was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

sakula persistence rat suricata trojan

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible Deep Panda - Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 5

Sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast C2 Activity

Executes dropped EXE

Deletes itself

Loads dropped DLL

Adds Run key to start application

Runs ping.exe

Modifies registry key

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2022-05-10 23:47

Signatures

N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-05-10 23:47

Reported

2022-05-11 00:10

Platform

win7-20220414-en

Max time kernel

145s

Max time network

163s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe"

Signatures

Sakula

trojan rat sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible Deep Panda - Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 5

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast C2 Activity

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

Loads dropped DLL

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe N/A
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 1624 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 2008 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 340 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 340 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 340 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 340 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 1624 wrote to memory of 1992 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 340 wrote to memory of 1952 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 340 wrote to memory of 1952 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 340 wrote to memory of 1952 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 340 wrote to memory of 1952 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1712 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1712 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1712 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 2008 wrote to memory of 1712 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 1992 wrote to memory of 1744 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1992 wrote to memory of 1744 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1992 wrote to memory of 1744 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 1992 wrote to memory of 1744 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.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:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c "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\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.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\PING.EXE

ping 127.0.0.1

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 vpn.premrera.com udp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp

Files

memory/1624-54-0x0000000076391000-0x0000000076393000-memory.dmp

memory/1624-55-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000024000-memory.dmp

memory/1624-56-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040B000-memory.dmp

memory/2008-57-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/340-58-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1992-59-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

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

MD5 1226dd27071c09e51aaf54e2a37367c2
SHA1 dd2197c6b2358ecef8d0fb94d272da86c103d35e
SHA256 79d93362299d134450bdcdd473902ce7e339f8a7697284dbc809e4d9def1220c
SHA512 9ae36da3b70ff10fd2523ceec1aaab09f29297e889f65613e0e55707ba3c6f409266154a101d021679e9aade19cd722e56c7848e25e48f92ab9a04133d81e8ad

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

MD5 1226dd27071c09e51aaf54e2a37367c2
SHA1 dd2197c6b2358ecef8d0fb94d272da86c103d35e
SHA256 79d93362299d134450bdcdd473902ce7e339f8a7697284dbc809e4d9def1220c
SHA512 9ae36da3b70ff10fd2523ceec1aaab09f29297e889f65613e0e55707ba3c6f409266154a101d021679e9aade19cd722e56c7848e25e48f92ab9a04133d81e8ad

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

MD5 1226dd27071c09e51aaf54e2a37367c2
SHA1 dd2197c6b2358ecef8d0fb94d272da86c103d35e
SHA256 79d93362299d134450bdcdd473902ce7e339f8a7697284dbc809e4d9def1220c
SHA512 9ae36da3b70ff10fd2523ceec1aaab09f29297e889f65613e0e55707ba3c6f409266154a101d021679e9aade19cd722e56c7848e25e48f92ab9a04133d81e8ad

memory/1952-63-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

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

MD5 1226dd27071c09e51aaf54e2a37367c2
SHA1 dd2197c6b2358ecef8d0fb94d272da86c103d35e
SHA256 79d93362299d134450bdcdd473902ce7e339f8a7697284dbc809e4d9def1220c
SHA512 9ae36da3b70ff10fd2523ceec1aaab09f29297e889f65613e0e55707ba3c6f409266154a101d021679e9aade19cd722e56c7848e25e48f92ab9a04133d81e8ad

memory/1712-66-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1744-67-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/1952-68-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000024000-memory.dmp

memory/1952-69-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040B000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2022-05-10 23:47

Reported

2022-05-11 00:11

Platform

win10v2004-20220414-en

Max time kernel

194s

Max time network

198s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe"

Signatures

Sakula

trojan rat sakula

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible DEEP PANDA C2 Activity

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Possible Deep Panda - Sakula/Mivast RAT CnC Beacon 5

suricata

suricata: ET MALWARE Sakula/Mivast C2 Activity

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 2396 wrote to memory of 4348 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 4348 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 4348 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 2028 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 2028 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 2028 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 4868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 4868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 2396 wrote to memory of 4868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
PID 4348 wrote to memory of 4976 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 4348 wrote to memory of 4976 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 4348 wrote to memory of 4976 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\reg.exe
PID 2028 wrote to memory of 2668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 2028 wrote to memory of 2668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 2028 wrote to memory of 2668 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\MediaCenter.exe
PID 4868 wrote to memory of 3572 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 4868 wrote to memory of 3572 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
PID 4868 wrote to memory of 3572 N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.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:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe

cmd.exe /c "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\99452760ef7c1d5bfd94c8db2cbd2fe2202cb13fe8e764bfd58a52933a9ea876.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\PING.EXE

ping 127.0.0.1

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

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

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 20.189.173.6:443 tcp
CH 173.222.108.226:80 tcp
US 204.79.197.203:80 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 vpn.premrera.com udp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
NL 104.97.14.80:80 tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp
US 208.91.197.27:443 vpn.premrera.com tcp

Files

memory/2396-130-0x0000000000030000-0x0000000000034000-memory.dmp

memory/2396-131-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040B000-memory.dmp

memory/4348-132-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/2028-133-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/4868-134-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/3572-137-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/2668-136-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

memory/4976-135-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

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

MD5 dbd958987f5f147847d7c54f5dc38127
SHA1 670cd05eeeb452dea85a12abe5067a8c75b5f0c2
SHA256 659539a37309fab24963b8e274e968846d73ce702152f0d73add9c563f967096
SHA512 d955839e6950bea3fcd34c3f3360207895dbbf7faf9fdc9ece1dc1e64c62487049de16adc9d2d74d50d1073db3e37c461c8210d8c5c52049db5f8836d8bddc42

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

MD5 dbd958987f5f147847d7c54f5dc38127
SHA1 670cd05eeeb452dea85a12abe5067a8c75b5f0c2
SHA256 659539a37309fab24963b8e274e968846d73ce702152f0d73add9c563f967096
SHA512 d955839e6950bea3fcd34c3f3360207895dbbf7faf9fdc9ece1dc1e64c62487049de16adc9d2d74d50d1073db3e37c461c8210d8c5c52049db5f8836d8bddc42

memory/2668-140-0x0000000000030000-0x0000000000034000-memory.dmp

memory/2668-141-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040B000-memory.dmp