General

  • Target

    Overdue_Invoice_2023B.pdf.lnk

  • Size

    1KB

  • Sample

    230206-t8x9jseh63

  • MD5

    094815ab6988cda2101381cbeeb0056e

  • SHA1

    df5f22ce9d8e0ee3ebca101f5112c6456088d317

  • SHA256

    0135c4f45de3e2187708033da3135210b03c9db4275dfa794dbcbff21b4f4df9

  • SHA512

    c8f3aae210a0157275c0f24e9175ef9d508c55fd5c8e48e6c10e95a79a9f41927d5574dc5197c9594f6fbfefe3eb19f851570c6bb5e0eaecd6311731e26e4363

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

cobaltstrike

Botnet

987654321

C2

http://185.225.74.52:443/favicon.js

Attributes
  • access_type

    512

  • beacon_type

    2048

  • host

    185.225.74.52,/favicon.js

  • http_header1

    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

  • http_header2

    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

  • http_method1

    GET

  • http_method2

    POST

  • jitter

    9472

  • polling_time

    55991

  • port_number

    443

  • sc_process32

    %windir%\syswow64\dllhost.exe

  • sc_process64

    %windir%\sysnative\dllhost.exe

  • state_machine

    MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCMEuNG3asVOp+bgSmSog10bB55R9e+aj5dF2sVbnRjA/dTkltRdDD0DdF5vJh/gURBikZ4FxqqmfqR2SPAheOzDDrYvV7ScpwPkZe8IUd/DbJmPs30ST9SGHn+eLjTQQEU+I142t7yTsO7HCKf1CTDMHfS3PNoz3V8ivNRwL1aiQIDAQABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==

  • unknown1

    9.63976192e+08

  • unknown2

    AAAABAAAAAIAAANxAAAAAwAAAA0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==

  • uri

    /btn_bg

  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Chrome/42.0.2311.135

  • watermark

    987654321

Targets

    • Target

      Overdue_Invoice_2023B.pdf.lnk

    • Size

      1KB

    • MD5

      094815ab6988cda2101381cbeeb0056e

    • SHA1

      df5f22ce9d8e0ee3ebca101f5112c6456088d317

    • SHA256

      0135c4f45de3e2187708033da3135210b03c9db4275dfa794dbcbff21b4f4df9

    • SHA512

      c8f3aae210a0157275c0f24e9175ef9d508c55fd5c8e48e6c10e95a79a9f41927d5574dc5197c9594f6fbfefe3eb19f851570c6bb5e0eaecd6311731e26e4363

    • Cobaltstrike

      Detected malicious payload which is part of Cobaltstrike.

    • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess

    • Blocklisted process makes network request

    • Checks computer location settings

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

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Loads dropped DLL

    • Adds Run key to start application

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1060

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Hidden Files and Directories

1
T1158

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

3
T1112

Hidden Files and Directories

1
T1158

Discovery

Query Registry

2
T1012

System Information Discovery

3
T1082

Tasks