Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20231222-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20231222-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    02/02/2024, 01:14

General

  • Target
    58e2f786321d58631386654265c8fc5298e1e396c219a424de57a3623b4bd994.msi
  • Size 4.3MB
  • Sample240202-blmkescfhn
  • SHA256 58e2f786321d58631386654265c8fc5298e1e396c219a424de57a3623b4bd994
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Signatures

  • DarkGate

    DarkGate is an infostealer written in C++.

  • Detect DarkGate stealer 38 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess 2 IoCs
  • Modifies file permissions 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 46 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 2 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 11 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 3 IoCs
  • Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 5 IoCs

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

  • Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 6 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 14 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 53 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 29 IoCs
  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

    The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.

Processes

  • C:\Windows\system32\taskhostw.exe
    taskhostw.exe {222A245B-E637-4AE9-A93F-A59CA119A75E}
    1⤵
      PID:2616
      • \??\c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe
        c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe
        2⤵
        • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
        • Checks processor information in registry
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2344
      • \??\c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe
        c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe
        2⤵
        • Checks processor information in registry
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        PID:1104
    • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
      msiexec.exe /I C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\58e2f786321d58631386654265c8fc5298e1e396c219a424de57a3623b4bd994.msi
      1⤵
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      PID:1512
    • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V
      1⤵
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Drops file in Windows directory
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1984
      • C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe ExecuteScopeRestorePoint /WaitForRestorePoint:2
        2⤵
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4912
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding 9D3C94FB57862A7C128B6EC23324335F
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:3212
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ICACLS.EXE
          "C:\Windows\system32\ICACLS.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\." /SETINTEGRITYLEVEL (CI)(OI)HIGH
          3⤵
          • Modifies file permissions
          PID:2356
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\EXPAND.EXE
          "C:\Windows\system32\EXPAND.EXE" -R files.cab -F:* files
          3⤵
          • Drops file in Windows directory
          PID:1832
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files\vlc.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files\vlc.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Loads dropped DLL
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:3916
          • \??\c:\temp\Autoit3.exe
            "c:\temp\Autoit3.exe" c:\temp\script.au3
            4⤵
            • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
            • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Checks processor information in registry
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2420
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ICACLS.EXE
          "C:\Windows\system32\ICACLS.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\." /SETINTEGRITYLEVEL (CI)(OI)LOW
          3⤵
          • Modifies file permissions
          PID:3656
    • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      1⤵
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2872

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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          Downloads

          bfhcece

          • Path C:\ProgramData\cadcegc\bfhcece
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 0da3bdc868ed01ed61933d4219488e32fbcbf30db4c98648176305ea8f448cf9
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          files.cab

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files.cab
          • Size 4.0MB
          • SHA256 96146d2cb6aa614ffe3aac47f5e0d8a3bcf28bacb3f27bc9a80a18ede73ac607
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          libvlc.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files\libvlc.dll
          • Size 1.5MB
          • SHA256 f3cbababb4ba75f65b4a5ec6d603ef93ed23089aef777b22db710d5bc873a11a
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          sqlite3.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files\sqlite3.dll
          • Size 1.6MB
          • SHA256 e894e2781806b306298f85a1af60b1ca38b4695bde30cf6839518e10501b6b5a
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          vlc.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\files\vlc.exe
          • Size 966KB
          • SHA256 16197a321fc7b0a2a311e689621fe4a7cd50fdcb2d163973a31e4fd6352232d7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          msiwrapper.ini

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\msiwrapper.ini
          • Size 430B
          • SHA256 049c5710ccbb1cc06aab8849f8d729095b3741ecdcfda2c2cc328484f81e9bc7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          msiwrapper.ini

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\msiwrapper.ini
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 77ab1e1860fa07a9791f29d59da89380cac56b3082110282d47f652cd8876b9d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          msiwrapper.ini

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\msiwrapper.ini
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 e998d4c561e8d69cfa9be04c2f452fdbb67bbc48b7183accfbff86fdc3ec8d71
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          msiwrapper.ini

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MW-3a2d5ef7-e0a8-45c5-a947-1ba3d7f0015b\msiwrapper.ini
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 37a897d59f84981357189be75839a2c5ecce9047884f7d14725a9fdb12e42eba
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          EEfcEeH

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\EEfcEeH
          • Size 32B
          • SHA256 905192fc75f546cfd6e6c5e5d0ed5c232554ed83d4e0085c91116335bcf42965
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          MSI7772.tmp

          • Path C:\Windows\Installer\MSI7772.tmp
          • Size 208KB
          • SHA256 107b32c5b789be9893f24d5bfe22633d25b7a3cae80082ef37b30e056869cc5c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          Autoit3.exe

          • Path C:\temp\Autoit3.exe
          • Size 872KB
          • SHA256 237d1bca6e056df5bb16a1216a434634109478f882d3b1d58344c801d184f95d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          cc.txt

          • Path C:\temp\cc.txt
          • Size 4B
          • SHA256 a1a939c7527de98016d09e3e110ff21a898247be2025c8db130f8af1a9773751
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          fs.txt

          • Path C:\temp\fs.txt
          • Size 4B
          • SHA256 40ae3fb94244c4bbe647a2bd676b19bab9a5ddc7c479fa132fa37312f21f714d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          metadata-2

          • Path \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2\System Volume Information\SPP\metadata-2
          • Size 23.0MB
          • SHA256 ebdf0bced05a4ce5a5eeed3e277c2dfe037ea8b58fe7ff22c960d80eb3397d81
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          {dccc5b3f-a2b8-4474-adc3-28427b77d43a}_OnDiskSnapshotProp

          • Path \??\Volume{15ae01b2-0000-0000-0000-d01200000000}\System Volume Information\SPP\OnlineMetadataCache\{dccc5b3f-a2b8-4474-adc3-28427b77d43a}_OnDiskSnapshotProp
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 c9a196a9cdd8487b6a732d16c0198b55f2f17934b1d94556e77a00cb342b9380
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          script.au3

          • Path \??\c:\temp\script.au3
          • Size 466KB
          • SHA256 3182937fdba31b1fe9f18f78e0901fe8d3bac7ed72b87f8409dcd19e2e1f4184
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          test.txt

          • Path \??\c:\temp\test.txt
          • Size 76B
          • SHA256 c5c350d106264a59acb4049244933261da379b6fc5577b519cfc113c83fb1e31
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          memory/1104-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-159-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-157-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-155-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-153-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-151-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-149-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-147-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-145-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-143-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-138-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-136-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-134-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/1104-132-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-148-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-120-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-131-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-114-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-133-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-158-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-135-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-126-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-137-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-156-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-142-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-122-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-144-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-124-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-146-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-111-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-154-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-110-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-150-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-109-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2344-152-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

          memory/2420-115-0x0000000006020000-0x000000000636E000-memory.dmp

          memory/2420-100-0x0000000004B30000-0x0000000005B00000-memory.dmp

          memory/2420-102-0x0000000006020000-0x000000000636E000-memory.dmp

          memory/3916-88-0x00000192CEEB0000-0x00000192CF04E000-memory.dmp

          memory/3916-86-0x000000006BB30000-0x000000006BCBD000-memory.dmp

          memory/3916-85-0x00007FF7B3650000-0x00007FF7B3748000-memory.dmp

          memory/3916-82-0x00000192CEEB0000-0x00000192CF04E000-memory.dmp