sakula | 86803a8a339c1ce9a51af13f714a058728fe51fce50f3058c4307a489f0e69e1

General

Target

AdobeUpdate.exe
Size

101KB
MD5

844b5faea55061d08a0be386788147f0
SHA1

267221b68281526500f997a0780f02ead0079f88
SHA256

86803a8a339c1ce9a51af13f714a058728fe51fce50f3058c4307a489f0e69e1
SHA512

f38173c1a159040a12fc1da5d964c62d64c4abe1ddda47614393b3ae49bf104f46efc7710528b8c519cfa14f4d290d025c0284cac4cd824ae035fbadda286850
SSDEEP

1536:9JbCiJVkgMaT2itTkjoRXnM48dXFajVPYxCEtkz30rtrGPTEzO:/bfVk29te2jqxCEtg30BibE6

Score

10^/10

sakula discovery persistence rat trojan

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

sakula

C2

www.savmpet.com

Signatures

Sakula
Sakula is a remote access trojan with various capabilities.
trojan rat sakula

Sakula payload 1 IoCs

resource	yara_rule
behavioral1/files/0x00030000000178b0-1.dat	family_sakula

Deletes itself 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2800	cmd.exe

Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2272	AdobeUpdate.exe

Loads dropped DLL 4 IoCs

pid	Process
904	AdobeUpdate.exe
2272	AdobeUpdate.exe
2272	AdobeUpdate.exe
2272	AdobeUpdate.exe

Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

T1547.001

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AdobeUpdate = "C:\\Users\\Admin\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\MicroMedia\\AdobeUpdate.exe"	AdobeUpdate.exe

Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

System Information Discovery
T1082

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

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

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	AdobeUpdate.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	AdobeUpdate.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	cmd.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	PING.EXE

System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

Adversaries may check for Internet connectivity on compromised systems.

discovery

Internet Connection Discovery

T1016.001

pid	Process
2800	cmd.exe
2716	PING.EXE

Runs ping.exe 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Remote System Discovery

T1018

pid	Process
2716	PING.EXE

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process
Token: SeIncBasePriorityPrivilege	904	AdobeUpdate.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 21 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2272	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	29
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 904 wrote to memory of 2800	904	AdobeUpdate.exe	31
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33
PID 2800 wrote to memory of 2716	2800	cmd.exe	33

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AdobeUpdate.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AdobeUpdate.exe"
1⤵
- Loads dropped DLL
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:904
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\AdobeUpdate.exe
  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\AdobeUpdate.exe
  2⤵
  - Executes dropped EXE
  - Loads dropped DLL
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2272
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c ping 127.0.0.1 & del /q "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AdobeUpdate.exe"
  2⤵
  - Deletes itself
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:2800
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\PING.EXE
    ping 127.0.0.1
    3⤵
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
    - Runs ping.exe
    PID:2716

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Persistence

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1

T1547.001

Privilege Escalation

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1

T1547.001

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

1

T1112

Credential Access

Discovery

Remote System Discovery

1

T1018

System Information Discovery

1

T1082

System Location Discovery

1

T1614

System Language Discovery

1

T1614.001

System Network Configuration Discovery

1

T1016

Internet Connection Discovery

1

T1016.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MicroMedia\AdobeUpdate.exe

Filesize
101KB

MD5
366c222c90548c10b711efa22a5f3d0d

SHA1
a6771b08e2f56c2bbb18b00d751f640eb4490e2e

SHA256
958a0f143b134f0578588626fa7780bd70d7b10db6503e2dd2811c32fa8b3bf9

SHA512
5676ce8e33b6e3bf33b6d2886f41001c4eb331d0eabe8333f7dc32e8465101c8d2210b859955f2524eac85b6fb62e4a86dbf4d4f554c22f6a7855943ee219a9c

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General

Malware Config

Extracted

Signatures

Processes

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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