Malware Analysis Report

2025-03-15 07:22

Sample ID 241111-y5gjvavkcw
Target 144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf
SHA256 144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf
Tags
macro xlm discovery
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V15

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

macro xlm discovery

Process spawned unexpected child process

Suspicious Office macro

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2024-11-11 20:21

Signatures

Suspicious Office macro

macro xlm
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-11-11 20:21

Reported

2024-11-11 20:24

Platform

win7-20240903-en

Max time kernel

122s

Max time network

122s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /dde C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf.xlsm

Signatures

Process spawned unexpected child process

Description Indicator Process Target
Parent C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe N/A

Enumerates system info in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\FloatingPointProcessor C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE N/A

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\144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf.xlsm

C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe /s ..\aew.ocx

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 vipteck.com udp
US 172.67.217.136:80 vipteck.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 shofarshoshanna.com udp
US 192.124.249.114:443 shofarshoshanna.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 santacruzam.com udp
US 172.67.152.227:443 santacruzam.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 c.pki.goog udp
GB 142.250.187.227:80 c.pki.goog tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 thearkrealmproject.com udp
FR 94.23.149.80:443 thearkrealmproject.com tcp
FR 94.23.149.80:443 thearkrealmproject.com tcp
FR 94.23.149.80:443 thearkrealmproject.com tcp
FR 94.23.149.80:443 thearkrealmproject.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 kingspointresidence.com udp
ID 154.41.240.141:443 kingspointresidence.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 crl.microsoft.com udp
GB 2.19.117.22:80 crl.microsoft.com tcp

Files

memory/1352-0-0x000000005FFF0000-0x0000000060000000-memory.dmp

memory/1352-1-0x000000007279D000-0x00000000727A8000-memory.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Cab8CA9.tmp

MD5 49aebf8cbd62d92ac215b2923fb1b9f5
SHA1 1723be06719828dda65ad804298d0431f6aff976
SHA256 b33efcb95235b98b48508e019afa4b7655e80cf071defabd8b2123fc8b29307f
SHA512 bf86116b015fb56709516d686e168e7c9c68365136231cc51d0b6542ae95323a71d2c7acec84aad7dcecc2e410843f6d82a0a6d51b9acfc721a9c84fdd877b5b

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Tar8CEA.tmp

MD5 4ea6026cf93ec6338144661bf1202cd1
SHA1 a1dec9044f750ad887935a01430bf49322fbdcb7
SHA256 8efbc21559ef8b1bcf526800d8070baad42474ce7198e26fa771dbb41a76b1d8
SHA512 6c7e0980e39aacf4c3689802353f464a08cd17753bd210ee997e5f2a455deb4f287a9ef74d84579dbde49bc96213cd2b8b247723919c412ea980aa6e6bfe218b

C:\Users\Admin\aew.ocx

MD5 e449641b4a47c29ce9f628eeb67950e0
SHA1 08200b12648347c4ae10a3b2b0f8939875e66acc
SHA256 6c2654d80285846bafd2406d84fc31b351161ef430897737b69e9bae1781dac7
SHA512 547b60fe7e7860c8a8661ea542a47b0ce875bf05940b0e7bd48c8661dda4f8d3bbaa55f4a5446a6541062e091556b8048b3f60ea54c5894375701292fbdf4654

memory/1352-135-0x000000007279D000-0x00000000727A8000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-11-11 20:21

Reported

2024-11-11 20:24

Platform

win10v2004-20241007-en

Max time kernel

148s

Max time network

150s

Command Line

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf.xlsm"

Signatures

Process spawned unexpected child process

Description Indicator Process Target
Parent C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE is not expected to spawn this process N/A C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe N/A

Checks processor information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\ProcessorNameString C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0\~MHz C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Enumerates system info in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\BIOS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemFamily C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\BIOS\SystemSKU C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A
N/A N/A C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE N/A

Processes

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\144890a1cd18b687849320ae534addd23717bf7cbb1fcc2b1967d556a980fcbf.xlsm"

C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe

C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe /s ..\aew.ocx

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 roaming.officeapps.live.com udp
IE 52.109.76.243:443 roaming.officeapps.live.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 46.28.109.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 154.239.44.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 vipteck.com udp
US 104.21.83.73:80 vipteck.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 shofarshoshanna.com udp
US 192.124.249.114:443 shofarshoshanna.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 santacruzam.com udp
US 104.21.2.202:443 santacruzam.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 c.pki.goog udp
GB 142.250.187.227:80 c.pki.goog tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 243.76.109.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 240.221.184.93.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 73.83.21.104.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 114.249.124.192.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 95.221.229.192.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 68.32.126.40.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 23.249.124.192.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 202.2.21.104.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 227.187.250.142.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 thearkrealmproject.com udp
FR 94.23.149.80:443 thearkrealmproject.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 80.149.23.94.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 32.169.19.2.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 24.173.189.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 209.205.72.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 50.23.12.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 206.23.85.13.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 0.205.248.87.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 19.229.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 13.227.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp

Files

memory/3008-1-0x00007FFC38CF0000-0x00007FFC38D00000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-3-0x00007FFC78D0D000-0x00007FFC78D0E000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-2-0x00007FFC38CF0000-0x00007FFC38D00000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-5-0x00007FFC38CF0000-0x00007FFC38D00000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-4-0x00007FFC38CF0000-0x00007FFC38D00000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-0-0x00007FFC38CF0000-0x00007FFC38D00000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-9-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-8-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-7-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-10-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-6-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-11-0x00007FFC369B0000-0x00007FFC369C0000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-12-0x00007FFC369B0000-0x00007FFC369C0000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-14-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-13-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-15-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-16-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-20-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-21-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-19-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-18-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

memory/3008-17-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\aew.ocx

MD5 3fdfa9e53ca72d9d91eb62ccb0a1bf75
SHA1 2c8ca918fc36dde496ec84deccde75fda5e4de0b
SHA256 7c72929aaa4a482e28896ef7aee01cd1b873643cfae170a50984135c309ed748
SHA512 898912138ba66d0b6c88829cc13116cc1354904860ce10509ec7ffa1facc44481045f886aa9ef867f0d8ac43fe43d0ff45f09785be6bd181ae6d5a6b4ffd48a0

memory/3008-53-0x00007FFC78C70000-0x00007FFC78E65000-memory.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\b8ab77100df80ab2.customDestinations-ms

MD5 b58c09815c45b1af20328cb9e1bca4c6
SHA1 47adf43ef2a8f599a589d870d727576e3223c8f9
SHA256 a7ac054678d332806d64ecb30c998828c934451cd8ee3d7c447633337d457e88
SHA512 12660120e59a0eb45ed6a09a0c9b280566af61a65f6fcdb97c6d31c590d7149289ccafe0175126b1180988c7c8cc344d8eeec27a2239d8a412e1d63d44f8bba2