General

  • Target

    0139f1cbe8e37310d3992ab28e97880d.exe

  • Size

    2.7MB

  • Sample

    220725-hs8jssbagl

  • MD5

    0139f1cbe8e37310d3992ab28e97880d

  • SHA1

    8f4a45d3ccf6be63cac0b3a4885796adb1591c44

  • SHA256

    eaf877b52975baa11069f182a50c1bcda8918177a35df15bc6ef3067bd1783b7

  • SHA512

    baba23dea6c2ecdc14294c409f86928e5d833c959629f9e7fd8c4262b77560b8a5ba82c897552c5e46ec6feae3f6bda8cc1f28709e83f47e9d95834255572376

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target

      0139f1cbe8e37310d3992ab28e97880d.exe

    • Size

      2.7MB

    • MD5

      0139f1cbe8e37310d3992ab28e97880d

    • SHA1

      8f4a45d3ccf6be63cac0b3a4885796adb1591c44

    • SHA256

      eaf877b52975baa11069f182a50c1bcda8918177a35df15bc6ef3067bd1783b7

    • SHA512

      baba23dea6c2ecdc14294c409f86928e5d833c959629f9e7fd8c4262b77560b8a5ba82c897552c5e46ec6feae3f6bda8cc1f28709e83f47e9d95834255572376

    • DcRat

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

    • Process spawned unexpected child process

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

    • UAC bypass

    • suricata: ET MALWARE DCRAT Activity (GET)

      suricata: ET MALWARE DCRAT Activity (GET)

    • DCRat payload

      Detects payload of DCRat, commonly dropped by NSIS installers.

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Checks computer location settings

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

    • Loads dropped DLL

    • Checks whether UAC is enabled

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Persistence

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Privilege Escalation

Bypass User Account Control

1
T1088

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Defense Evasion

Bypass User Account Control

1
T1088

Disabling Security Tools

1
T1089

Modify Registry

2
T1112

Discovery

Query Registry

1
T1012

System Information Discovery

3
T1082

Tasks