xloader | 1faca62436ef49b904a73d51088da2aa51825c854f6dfb0916ddebc550d79b37

General

Target

fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe
Size

539KB
MD5

fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc
SHA1

69387e92209bf6820f3daa0107359555ca8bc63b
SHA256

1faca62436ef49b904a73d51088da2aa51825c854f6dfb0916ddebc550d79b37
SHA512

f075626de6bdbf4a3c712e85c9c3f03410e62edf5b6c292eb1cffcb494ac64881297d6b3dba6053e44350f75aa39d8154b686eff7764eb81a631e327fdb78252
SSDEEP

12288:ojYTbhetS4ynTUF7+1lMCYTJQCvFu8SUG0zY:ojGhetSXnTwAl5fCvFnSU

Score

10^/10

xloader tows discovery execution loader rat

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

xloader

Version

2.5

Campaign

tows

Decoy

affordableorganizing.net

airstreamnear.com

mindequalsmoney.com

ganleychevybuyscars.com

g17cp.com

flahertystudios.com

jermainemyersonlam.com

ivermectinbuyonline.online

leapconfront.com

rosevillerose.com

fjlypc.com

jugnievents.com

fulvicgump.com

lawofficeofgeorgeefootepx.com

cityinfoyellowpagesnepal.com

thenorthfacesale.online

citadel-soft.com

real-estate-lake-tahoe.com

middleeastclean.services

xinsufu.xyz

Signatures

Xloader
Xloader is a rebranded version of Formbook malware.
loader xloader
Xloader family
xloader

Xloader payload 2 IoCs

rat

resource	yara_rule
behavioral1/memory/2228-12-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp	xloader
behavioral1/memory/2228-17-0x0000000000930000-0x0000000000C33000-memory.dmp	xloader

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

execution

PowerShell

T1059.001

pid	Process
2960	powershell.exe

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 1980 set thread context of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32

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 2 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	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	powershell.exe

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs

pid	Process
2228	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe
2960	powershell.exe

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	2960	powershell.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 11 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2960	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	31
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2960	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	31
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2960	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	31
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2960	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	31
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32
PID 1980 wrote to memory of 2228	1980	fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe	32

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe"
1⤵
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:1980
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe"
  2⤵
  - Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
  - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
  PID:2960
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fe4f79a87c731022ff87a08dedc5fccc_JaffaCakes118.exe"
  2⤵
  - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
  PID:2228

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Command and Scripting Interpreter

1

T1059

PowerShell

1

T1059.001

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Defense Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

System Information Discovery

1

T1082

System Location Discovery

1

T1614

System Language Discovery

1

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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Downloads

memory/1980-6-0x0000000000F30000-0x0000000000F94000-memory.dmp

Filesize
400KB

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memory/1980-13-0x0000000074110000-0x00000000747FE000-memory.dmp

Filesize
6.9MB

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memory/1980-2-0x0000000074110000-0x00000000747FE000-memory.dmp

Filesize
6.9MB

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memory/1980-3-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004AC000-memory.dmp

Filesize
48KB

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memory/1980-4-0x000000007411E000-0x000000007411F000-memory.dmp

Filesize
4KB

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memory/1980-5-0x0000000074110000-0x00000000747FE000-memory.dmp

Filesize
6.9MB

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memory/1980-1-0x0000000000FA0000-0x000000000102C000-memory.dmp

Filesize
560KB

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memory/1980-7-0x0000000000850000-0x0000000000880000-memory.dmp

Filesize
192KB

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memory/1980-0-0x000000007411E000-0x000000007411F000-memory.dmp

Filesize
4KB

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memory/2228-12-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp

Filesize
164KB

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memory/2228-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp

Filesize
164KB

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memory/2228-8-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp

Filesize
164KB

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memory/2228-10-0x000000007EFDE000-0x000000007EFDF000-memory.dmp

Filesize
4KB

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memory/2228-14-0x0000000000930000-0x0000000000C33000-memory.dmp

Filesize
3.0MB

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memory/2228-17-0x0000000000930000-0x0000000000C33000-memory.dmp

Filesize
3.0MB

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