Analysis

  • max time kernel
    106s
  • max time network
    94s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20220812-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20220812-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    03-10-2022 05:00

General

  • Target

    PO # 6022000990.xlsx

  • Size

    225KB

  • MD5

    0e8124dc3c84e6b3d1dd6402c38d36a0

  • SHA1

    b98ab3ba28586b38e87f658d6a0ea5089f9ebf28

  • SHA256

    0c922da2933a3d4e4707561d8cfd0252fbba9853e6a8703e19cb76340f5b78a1

  • SHA512

    193bfd7db132071af2bde49a931edb16bae3e5b1100663abaacd28c72f35d0647871d32c64a360c43b6ff5843f37eda6bae729021e73267117179cc72afe7508

  • SSDEEP

    6144:YKwyJY3dHu+QbR61DJBgH2woI3zL1c+k38T/mKgRx5:5w7dHut6+/oIji+xvgR7

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

snakekeylogger

Credentials

  • Protocol:
    smtp
  • Host:
    us2.smtp.mailhostbox.com
  • Port:
    587
  • Username:
    smadar.joseph@almalasers-il.com
  • Password:
    doDHyw%0
  • Email To:
    smadar.joseph@almalasers-il.com

Signatures

  • Snake Keylogger

    Keylogger and Infostealer first seen in November 2020.

  • Snake Keylogger payload 6 IoCs
  • Blocklisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 5 IoCs
  • Reads data files stored by FTP clients 2 TTPs

    Tries to access configuration files associated with programs like FileZilla.

  • Reads user/profile data of local email clients 2 TTPs

    Email clients store some user data on disk where infostealers will often target it.

  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
  • Looks up external IP address via web service 1 IoCs

    Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • 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 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 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\PO # 6022000990.xlsx"
    1⤵
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:1976
  • 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:1052
    • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
      "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1496
      • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
        "C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • outlook_office_path
        • outlook_win_path
        PID:1968

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scripting

1
T1064

Exploitation for Client Execution

1
T1203

Defense Evasion

Scripting

1
T1064

Modify Registry

1
T1112

Credential Access

Credentials in Files

3
T1081

Discovery

Query Registry

1
T1012

System Information Discovery

1
T1082

Collection

Data from Local System

3
T1005

Email Collection

1
T1114

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Downloads

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • \Users\Public\vbc.exe
    Filesize

    904KB

    MD5

    0d01b398c62a9309102e4ff06a8e41ca

    SHA1

    9d5295874a6d5bce167fe43c02b79dde88100ad2

    SHA256

    7a67b150e39e9a9e879083da6aba720773e8bd4b3a46729fff3a38554d27e05e

    SHA512

    9b7713d68b73972138007987b5f5c3dfc2d95e8bc139d2b9b590d6e49c9ec6a7284f19c16d5ab6f9a236c88d0910ee4b63baa32906d2ede0cba80b803223edb0

  • memory/1496-72-0x0000000000500000-0x000000000050C000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    48KB

  • memory/1496-71-0x00000000004B0000-0x00000000004CC000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    112KB

  • memory/1496-73-0x00000000050A0000-0x0000000005120000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    512KB

  • memory/1496-65-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp
  • memory/1496-74-0x0000000001FC0000-0x0000000001FE6000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1496-68-0x0000000010790000-0x0000000010874000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    912KB

  • memory/1968-78-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-80-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-87-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-85-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-81-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-75-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-76-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000426000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    152KB

  • memory/1968-82-0x000000000042019E-mapping.dmp
  • memory/1976-56-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/1976-55-0x0000000071A01000-0x0000000071A03000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1976-54-0x000000002F8E1000-0x000000002F8E4000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    12KB

  • memory/1976-69-0x00000000729ED000-0x00000000729F8000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    44KB

  • memory/1976-57-0x00000000729ED000-0x00000000729F8000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    44KB

  • memory/1976-58-0x00000000762B1000-0x00000000762B3000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1976-89-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    64KB

  • memory/1976-90-0x00000000729ED000-0x00000000729F8000-memory.dmp
    Filesize

    44KB