General

  • Target

    1b3ac5404d6cc2d7c8a514a578473b695e8c7ad101472ba2a94ec8f2a5aa2be7

  • Size

    345KB

  • Sample

    221004-ecm2dabcg2

  • MD5

    d879458fe084027d5a1719359df129ff

  • SHA1

    0ba7e5c25d571b8952d46dc715c47c2776732a06

  • SHA256

    1b3ac5404d6cc2d7c8a514a578473b695e8c7ad101472ba2a94ec8f2a5aa2be7

  • SHA512

    4157cd51b8f17c22c900b34c49e56cbb17d7aa88e4321f3f5444d4b475950e6437bbcb4fcbb6156cb504666fc03182f2d9970eb0fcc809996914c11fbb7ca834

  • SSDEEP

    6144:xK5lpVV+1MszHze0x/qJMyy4ohtyYge92QUp4ecu/vL:ev1YzeMyy4op12QUP3

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target

      1b3ac5404d6cc2d7c8a514a578473b695e8c7ad101472ba2a94ec8f2a5aa2be7

    • Size

      345KB

    • MD5

      d879458fe084027d5a1719359df129ff

    • SHA1

      0ba7e5c25d571b8952d46dc715c47c2776732a06

    • SHA256

      1b3ac5404d6cc2d7c8a514a578473b695e8c7ad101472ba2a94ec8f2a5aa2be7

    • SHA512

      4157cd51b8f17c22c900b34c49e56cbb17d7aa88e4321f3f5444d4b475950e6437bbcb4fcbb6156cb504666fc03182f2d9970eb0fcc809996914c11fbb7ca834

    • SSDEEP

      6144:xK5lpVV+1MszHze0x/qJMyy4ohtyYge92QUp4ecu/vL:ev1YzeMyy4op12QUP3

    • Modifies security service

    • xmrig

      XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

    • Identifies VirtualBox via ACPI registry values (likely anti-VM)

    • XMRig Miner payload

    • Downloads MZ/PE file

    • Drops file in Drivers directory

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Stops running service(s)

    • UPX packed file

      Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

    • Checks BIOS information in registry

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

    • Identifies Wine through registry keys

      Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications, which can be used as sandboxing environment.

    • Themida packer

      Detects Themida, an advanced Windows software protection system.

    • Checks whether UAC is enabled

    • Drops file in System32 directory

    • Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Persistence

Modify Existing Service

2
T1031

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

1
T1112

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2
T1497

Impair Defenses

1
T1562

Discovery

Query Registry

3
T1012

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2
T1497

System Information Discovery

3
T1082

Impact

Service Stop

1
T1489

Tasks