Analysis

  • max time kernel
    144s
  • max time network
    144s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20240220-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20240220-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    01/05/2024, 14:25

General

  • Target
    ET2431000075 & ET2431000076.xls
  • Size 239KB
  • Sample240501-rraqtaba37
  • SHA256 8402999484537d7b6a3ab9f2d1dc95aa667e35e13aad7b1ff4cf9f8622144848
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • agenttesla

Credentials

Signatures

  • AgentTesla

    Agent Tesla is a remote access tool (RAT) written in visual basic.

  • Blocklisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Abuses OpenXML format to download file from external location
  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
  • Looks up external IP address via web service 2 IoCs

    Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.

  • Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present
  • Creates scheduled task(s) 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Launches Equation Editor 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Equation Editor is an old Office component often targeted by exploits such as CVE-2017-11882.

  • Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 31 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 32 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ET2431000075 & ET2431000076.xls"
    1⤵
    • Enumerates system info in registry
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:1948
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" -Embedding
    1⤵
    • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2696
    • C:\Windows\splwow64.exe
      C:\Windows\splwow64.exe 12288
      2⤵
        PID:2132
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\EQNEDT32.EXE
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\EQUATION\EQNEDT32.EXE" -Embedding
      1⤵
      • Blocklisted process makes network request
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • Launches Equation Editor
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1672
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hkc.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hkc.exe"
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2284
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hkc.exe"
          3⤵
          • Drops file in System32 directory
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:296
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\TDUOdzDXjTezF.exe"
          3⤵
          • Drops file in System32 directory
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:408
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\TDUOdzDXjTezF" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpB07B.tmp"
          3⤵
          • Creates scheduled task(s)
          PID:2412
        • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe
          "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"
          3⤵
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:1872

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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          Downloads

          FSD-CNRY.FSD

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\14.0\OfficeFileCache\FSD-CNRY.FSD
          • Size 128KB
          • SHA256 4d518cdf0f10fab265c2fc3ec8e3805ae462cc217ab11097f7335fd3531324a0
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          FSD-{C740F889-36FF-4E32-9D5F-683EF930A30B}.FSD

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\14.0\OfficeFileCache\FSD-{C740F889-36FF-4E32-9D5F-683EF930A30B}.FSD
          • Size 128KB
          • SHA256 d2d75583bcc51dfb7a1c26b936a5b421b2a854cf54aab0c850a8e24715ae4b23
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          FSD-CNRY.FSD

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\14.0\OfficeFileCache\LocalCacheFileEditManager\FSD-CNRY.FSD
          • Size 128KB
          • SHA256 4dc8ff9a4a536f4647ef5aac278b25ffd6b4d1bf9808b8f8ca68ed1d53cc34e6
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          FSD-{6B744373-56E1-4A62-835B-31EEE656F2CB}.FSD

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\14.0\OfficeFileCache\LocalCacheFileEditManager\FSD-{6B744373-56E1-4A62-835B-31EEE656F2CB}.FSD
          • Size 128KB
          • SHA256 8f314387dff188531eb5d555cdec1d9cf739b1013d419297eb8ac0d15381ff78
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          creatednewthingstounderstandhowgoodfishingdowithaboatwenotunderstandthatgirl___beautifulgirlkissedmelove[1].doc

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\I819HQXH\creatednewthingstounderstandhowgoodfishingdowithaboatwenotunderstandthatgirl___beautifulgirlkissedmelove[1].doc
          • Size 74KB
          • SHA256 cd8edf6fd58e1aab115d9da94f4e8427c29b430cbac0dc9f01f9442c37a5cd7e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          tmpB07B.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpB07B.tmp
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 2d814c5bd8ba62b0c8a15dd4d800251be65f90032f6ee9f716d040645b1eb72c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          {1D511449-AA21-46B0-8CB4-1628E5EA7A51}

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\{1D511449-AA21-46B0-8CB4-1628E5EA7A51}
          • Size 128KB
          • SHA256 7b4c777a5fc5cf53f48b0f4a1fc145fcd8820996ab2250b46f7e9366cab5387d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          d93f411851d7c929.customDestinations-ms

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\d93f411851d7c929.customDestinations-ms
          • Size 7KB
          • SHA256 096e2c97178b1d4e3abce0455df679196e9c59307239dc1585657273c28c83df
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          hkc.exe

          • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hkc.exe
          • Size 791KB
          • SHA256 94e86d7455f9c08cc57d6706e0f779a59459fbdac1506d5b12f20566ad2b9cce
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          memory/1872-118-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-120-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-122-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-124-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-126-0x000000007EFDE000-0x000000007EFDF000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-127-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1872-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000442000-memory.dmp

          memory/1948-0-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp

          memory/1948-1-0x00000000728FD000-0x0000000072908000-memory.dmp

          memory/1948-8-0x0000000002CD0000-0x0000000002CD2000-memory.dmp

          memory/1948-77-0x00000000728FD000-0x0000000072908000-memory.dmp

          memory/2284-105-0x00000000077E0000-0x0000000007862000-memory.dmp

          memory/2284-104-0x0000000000280000-0x0000000000296000-memory.dmp

          memory/2284-103-0x0000000000210000-0x0000000000226000-memory.dmp

          memory/2284-101-0x0000000000B90000-0x0000000000C5C000-memory.dmp

          memory/2696-3-0x000000002FAB1000-0x000000002FAB2000-memory.dmp

          memory/2696-78-0x00000000728FD000-0x0000000072908000-memory.dmp

          memory/2696-5-0x00000000728FD000-0x0000000072908000-memory.dmp

          memory/2696-7-0x00000000036D0000-0x00000000036D2000-memory.dmp