General

  • Target

    Aurora.exe

  • Size

    25.5MB

  • Sample

    230501-mtwc3sha7y

  • MD5

    5b5049eee909a12420356f785890ee12

  • SHA1

    2458920623ab942e1f564cb09ae25fb02b6b76a0

  • SHA256

    4e68fa05c32bcd3790d93809a53be10bc4b0b1023dfaef3b101ef0f29a62efd0

  • SHA512

    5c7fecb1d55baa008ee4fa90a08c0a1dbbcb2635082a6df51bdacf6fde9fe878f36769fd8099f5a0c371b3e60e5d4ff8e4097bf38346f7167d0a13c9bcdc310c

  • SSDEEP

    98304:UlQKxQh+98myGsy1slENtrE7pQ8kq34vEStCAsDrP7J8yStyBCWLRV7VtC4bksxA:QQPY9mgGvkHEAsdtLRVRXgFqKQbEZxRF

Malware Config

Extracted

Language
ps1
Source
URLs
ps1.dropper

https://pastebin.com/raw/tPAFrSUD

Targets

    • Target

      Aurora.exe

    • Size

      25.5MB

    • MD5

      5b5049eee909a12420356f785890ee12

    • SHA1

      2458920623ab942e1f564cb09ae25fb02b6b76a0

    • SHA256

      4e68fa05c32bcd3790d93809a53be10bc4b0b1023dfaef3b101ef0f29a62efd0

    • SHA512

      5c7fecb1d55baa008ee4fa90a08c0a1dbbcb2635082a6df51bdacf6fde9fe878f36769fd8099f5a0c371b3e60e5d4ff8e4097bf38346f7167d0a13c9bcdc310c

    • SSDEEP

      98304:UlQKxQh+98myGsy1slENtrE7pQ8kq34vEStCAsDrP7J8yStyBCWLRV7VtC4bksxA:QQPY9mgGvkHEAsdtLRVRXgFqKQbEZxRF

    • Aurora

      Aurora is a crypto wallet stealer written in Golang.

    • Shurk

      Shurk is an infostealer, written in C++ which appeared in 2021.

    • Shurk Stealer payload

    • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess

    • Blocklisted process makes network request

    • Downloads MZ/PE file

    • Drops file in Drivers directory

    • Stops running service(s)

    • 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

    • Legitimate hosting services abused for malware hosting/C2

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Persistence

Modify Existing Service

1
T1031

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1060

Defense Evasion

Impair Defenses

1
T1562

Modify Registry

1
T1112

Discovery

Query Registry

1
T1012

System Information Discovery

2
T1082

Command and Control

Web Service

1
T1102

Impact

Service Stop

1
T1489

Tasks