Technical Information
To ensure autorun and distribution
Modifies the following registry keys
- [<HKCU>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] 'qLqKXNKbOaSPNhl' = 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\wPxXGzqOqGMDiW\svchost.exe'
Malicious functions
To complicate detection of its presence in the operating system,
adds antivirus exclusion with following registry keys:
- [<HKLM>\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] 'C:\Users\Public\Documents\wPxXGzqOqGMDiW\svchost.exe' = '00000000'
- [<HKLM>\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] 'C:\Users\Public\69577.exe' = '00000000'
Creates and executes the following
- '' (downloaded from the Internet)
Creates and executes the following (exploit)
- 'C:\users\public\69577.exe'
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\69577.exe" -Force
Injects code into
the following user processes:
- 69577.exe
Modifies file system
Creates the following files
- C:\users\public\69577.exe
- %LOCALAPPDATA%\먗맣맲맻먑먌맥맲먅먚_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\5.326.540.461\rhv12klq.newcfg
- C:\users\public\documents\wpxxgzqoqgmdiw\svchost.exe
Moves the following files
- from %LOCALAPPDATA%\먗맣맲맻먑먌맥맲먅먚_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\5.326.540.461\rhv12klq.newcfg to %LOCALAPPDATA%\먗맣맲맻먑먌맥맲먅먚_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\5.326.540.461\user.config
Network activity
Connects to
- 'bi#.ly':80
- 'la####g.yetiapp.ec':80
- 'je####jcjfhh.com':80
- 'je####jcjfhh.com':443
- 'ch####p.dyndns.org':80
- 'fr###eoip.app':443
TCP
HTTP GET requests
- http://je####jcjfhh.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/steven-gerrard-liverpool-future-dalglish--goal-00EF07D21C7D5F4678ACBB70D3F3CD39.html
- http://je####jcjfhh.com/liverpool-fc-news/features/steven-gerrard-liverpool-future-dalglish--goal-F0229FCF4361E3474252BC51486A1FE9.html
UDP
- DNS ASK bi#.ly
- DNS ASK la####g.yetiapp.ec
- DNS ASK je####jcjfhh.com
- DNS ASK ch####p.dyndns.org
- DNS ASK fr###eoip.app
Miscellaneous
Creates and executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\Documents\wPxXGzqOqGMDiW\svchost.exe" -Force' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\69577.exe" -Force' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /c timeout 1' (with hidden window)
Executes the following
- '%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\equation\eqnedt32.exe' -Embedding
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\Documents\wPxXGzqOqGMDiW\svchost.exe" -Force
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /c timeout 1
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\timeout.exe' 1
