Analysis

  • max time kernel
    138s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20220414-en
  • submitted
    21-05-2022 02:13

General

  • Target

    citat.exe

  • Size

    507KB

  • MD5

    4c0812477679e4c34663933be5c5f9fb

  • SHA1

    3c3df6e2bb55f8870b9eb9da60008ea58972a20e

  • SHA256

    66b15ee82b31364bbb038c7a2f60fac0057d01b0865b2b71a4418293fc9e056d

  • SHA512

    35868df44b9faf661bd916d5210e5229863838d609f2056f1b6da9e148d588dba5516aa296adad2f42f74e9b13d7ece042b26424820b038025106fb7f0822aa4

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

agenttesla

Credentials

  • Protocol:
    smtp
  • Host:
    smtp.yandex.com
  • Port:
    587
  • Username:
    [email protected]
  • Password:
    SENEGAL12345

Signatures

  • AgentTesla

    Agent Tesla is a remote access tool (RAT) written in visual basic.

  • AgentTesla Payload 1 IoCs
  • Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry 2 TTPs
  • Looks for VMWare Tools registry key 2 TTPs
  • Checks BIOS information in registry 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

    BIOS information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
  • Maps connected drives based on registry 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • 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.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 9 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 20 IoCs
  • outlook_office_path 1 IoCs
  • outlook_win_path 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\citat.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\citat.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks BIOS information in registry
    • Checks computer location settings
    • Maps connected drives based on registry
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4144
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\YYRzvn" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp27BC.tmp"
      2⤵
      • Creates scheduled task(s)
      PID:888
    • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe
      "{path}"
      2⤵
        PID:2896
      • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe
        "{path}"
        2⤵
          PID:3076
        • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe
          "{path}"
          2⤵
            PID:2660
          • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe
            "{path}"
            2⤵
            • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
            • outlook_office_path
            • outlook_win_path
            PID:4072

        Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

        Execution

        Scheduled Task

        1
        T1053

        Persistence

        Scheduled Task

        1
        T1053

        Privilege Escalation

        Scheduled Task

        1
        T1053

        Defense Evasion

        Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

        2
        T1497

        Discovery

        Query Registry

        5
        T1012

        Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

        2
        T1497

        System Information Discovery

        4
        T1082

        Peripheral Device Discovery

        1
        T1120

        Collection

        Email Collection

        1
        T1114

        Replay Monitor

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        Downloads

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp27BC.tmp
          Filesize

          1KB

          MD5

          6a7a2a16412dfdedd98fbeb259884699

          SHA1

          1040a6801e9cfc5f623ce9771ebfef9300fbb15a

          SHA256

          b716fd4da3059b61b1c3087e1f89dc7e43ef4d08fccffbf828c3adf8919d5ddd

          SHA512

          eeb230bae221ea3e2ab2bae5adf84f1e865c24da465e62b579bc01aba585f65d8e6de1d9859a3da9f2e2fc4227a006b196f4e79500bf295719ff7376cfa2baac

        • memory/888-135-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
        • memory/2660-139-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
        • memory/2896-137-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
        • memory/3076-138-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
        • memory/4072-140-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
        • memory/4072-141-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000044C000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          304KB

        • memory/4072-142-0x00000000063E0000-0x0000000006430000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          320KB

        • memory/4072-143-0x0000000006470000-0x000000000647A000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          40KB

        • memory/4144-133-0x00000000066A0000-0x000000000673C000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          624KB

        • memory/4144-134-0x0000000006740000-0x00000000067A6000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          408KB

        • memory/4144-132-0x0000000005870000-0x0000000005902000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          584KB

        • memory/4144-131-0x0000000005D20000-0x00000000062C4000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          5.6MB

        • memory/4144-130-0x0000000000E60000-0x0000000000EE6000-memory.dmp
          Filesize

          536KB