40bbc46a649c25fb3f8f727f59bea854696e643a1f2219b01f677d970c75e2db

General

Target
extension-fix-UYJOKQ.hta
Size 2KB
Sample260803-lnbaaawtht
SHA256 40bbc46a649c25fb3f8f727f59bea854696e643a1f2219b01f677d970c75e2db
MD5 64f0d8dd9ffad20a4040931dec442c13
SHA1 228387adf3751d340ab2b0e6962197b710910623
SHA512 bc581084052cb8d788c4ac87e4dda731ef46e1dd99bdd3ae74cc9266e4b245c8dc09b6f94fe25521580ecf97fca0ae377cd4f09b23dd7c8b1f34ef04c91d0fb5
TLSH
T10F5122F3A98646CABC3289DB5A2F109E14A4174223A2E4F8F6D7DD00EF8CF5945783D4
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
4	3156	mshta.exe
5	3156	mshta.exe
6	3156	mshta.exe
7	3156	mshta.exe
8	3156	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	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	mshta.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
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	rundll32.exe

Modifies registry class 20 IoCs

description	ioc	Process
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CacheLimit = "1"	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\History\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content	rundll32.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Content\CacheVersion = "1"	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies\CacheLimit = "1"	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache	rundll32.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_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-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings	rundll32.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3611646547-550105268-947503007-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Internet Settings\Cache\Extensible Cache	rundll32.exe

Script User-Agent 1 IoCs

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

description	flow	ioc
HTTP User-Agent header	7	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Win32; WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5)

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs

pid	Process
2836	rundll32.exe
5896	rundll32.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 3156 wrote to memory of 5896	3156	mshta.exe	91
PID 3156 wrote to memory of 2836	3156	mshta.exe	90
PID 5896 wrote to memory of 1228	5896	rundll32.exe	93
PID 2836 wrote to memory of 488	2836	rundll32.exe	94

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mshta.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\extension-fix-UYJOKQ.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:3156
- 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:2836
- - 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:488
- 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:5896
- - 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:1228
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
  2⤵
  PID:968