7a2d2ce5999e873ae29a1b5ae76238dd47b636b9404744999475ea66b2ad8693

General

Target
extension-fix-2VRXJH.hta
Size 3KB
Sample260803-k8bk4sshmc
SHA256 7a2d2ce5999e873ae29a1b5ae76238dd47b636b9404744999475ea66b2ad8693
MD5 70984850654ab0fb56cbc61f014de3c3
SHA1 d9957cf347746e6c2ac0d7272285ae7087049985
SHA512 dff8904ce2b31520c2782ed1b839d993661e38f14447601b5222246a04e9a5d78a5cc525d9d5218421021b76a440efad3add8515a523184757f792e7c7b45147
TLSH
T14B618FFB7A8397C4BC72499F5B3F908914D82A031365D4B8F68BDC40AF58E4980357E8
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

Score

8^/10

adware discovery spyware

Malware Config

Signatures

Badlisted process makes network request 5 IoCs

Network request originating from process or tool commonly abused by malware.

flow	pid	Process
2	1724	mshta.exe
3	1724	mshta.exe
4	1724	mshta.exe
5	1724	mshta.exe
6	1724	mshta.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 5 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	mshta.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	rundll32.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	rundll32.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	rundll32.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	rundll32.exe

Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

adware spyware

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	rundll32.exe

Modifies registry class 20 IoCs

description	ioc	Process
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content\CachePrefix	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content\CachePrefix	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CachePrefix = "Visited:"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CachePrefix = "Cookie:"	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Extensible Cache	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CachePrefix = "Visited:"	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CachePrefix = "Cookie:"	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content\CacheLimit = "51200"	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CacheLimit = "1"	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1875162379-3804078649-638427191-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CacheLimit = "1"	rundll32.exe

Script User-Agent 1 IoCs

Uses user-agent string associated with script host/environment.

description	flow	ioc
HTTP User-Agent header	5	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Win32; WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5)

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs

pid	Process
2812	rundll32.exe
2240	rundll32.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2812	1724	mshta.exe	90
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2240	1724	mshta.exe	89
PID 2240 wrote to memory of 5236	2240	rundll32.exe	91
PID 2812 wrote to memory of 5684	2812	rundll32.exe	92

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\extension-fix-2VRXJH.hta" {1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}{1E460BD7-F1C3-4B2E-88BF-4E770A288AF5}
1⤵
- Badlisted process makes network request
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:1724
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Modifies Internet Explorer settings
  - Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:2240
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\system32\inetcpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess Flags:8 WinX:0 WinY:0 IEFrame:00000000
    3⤵
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Modifies registry class
    PID:5236
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Modifies Internet Explorer settings
  - Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:2812
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\system32\inetcpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess Flags:8 WinX:0 WinY:0 IEFrame:00000000
    3⤵
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Modifies registry class
    PID:5684