Gen.Variant.Midie.35218_aa8055c655

by malwarelabrobot on June 9th, 2017 in Malware Descriptions.

Gen:Variant.Midie.35218 (BitDefender), Virus:Win32/Shodi.I (Microsoft), Virus.Win32.Virut.ce (Kaspersky), Virus.Win32.Shodi.i (v) (VIPRE), Win32.HLLP.Shohdi (DrWeb), Gen:Variant.Midie.35218 (B) (Emsisoft), Artemis!AA8055C6558F (McAfee), ML.Attribute.HighConfidence (Symantec), Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon (Ikarus), Gen:Variant.Midie.35218 (FSecure), Generic38.BGVL (AVG), Win32:Vitro (Avast), PE_SHODI_GB23009D.UVPM (TrendMicro), Gen:Variant.Midie.35218 (AdAware), VirusVirut.YR (Lavasoft MAS)
Behaviour: Backdoor, Virus


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Summary
Dynamic Analysis
Static Analysis
Network Activity
Map
Strings from Dumps
Removals

MD5: aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f
SHA1: 2d95ae7bf1a0051664bbf7b80dc9b6c2371feba6
SHA256: cfeee2e862c377ad18f42135a65ff053b3e8fe3572fdb7babaddb1f84acbadaf
SSDeep: 3072:3TSccsWlXCFLcVygbDzwcnT7u7reWikKUBNe 31A:3aDCiDzwcnT67hNhA
Size: 177047 bytes
File type: EXE
Platform: WIN32
Entropy: Not Packed
PEID: UPolyXv05_v6
Company: no certificate found
Created at: 2004-09-12 12:55:29
Analyzed on: Windows7 SP1 32-bit


Summary:

Backdoor. Malware that enables a remote control of victim's machine.

Payload

No specific payload has been found.

Process activity

The Backdoor creates the following process(es):

aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr:3416
ntvdm.exe:1480

The Backdoor injects its code into the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:1796

Mutexes

The following mutexes were created/opened:
No objects were found.

File activity

The process ntvdm.exe:1480 makes changes in the file system.
The Backdoor creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FB.tmp (269 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FA.tmp (335 bytes)

The Backdoor deletes the following file(s):

C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FB.tmp (0 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FA.tmp (0 bytes)

The process %original file name%.exe:1796 makes changes in the file system.
The Backdoor creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

C:\Windows\System32\USR_Shohdi_Photo_USR.rsu (21682 bytes)
C:\Windows\USR_Shohdi_Photo_USR.exe (6889123 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Setup.exe (408872 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Reader9\Setup.exe (444160 bytes)
C:\aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr (66189 bytes)

The Backdoor deletes the following file(s):

C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Reader9\Setup.usr (0 bytes)
C:\Windows\System32\USR_Shohdi_Photo_USR.rsu (0 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Setup.usr (0 bytes)

Registry activity

The process aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr:3416 makes changes in the system registry.
The Backdoor creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKCU\Identities]
"Identity Ordinal" = "2"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB]
"NamedProps" = "04 20 06 00 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 46"

[HKCU\Identities\{C692FCB0-9162-422E-94A4-4CD072B19CA9}]
"Identity Ordinal" = "1"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB]
"NamedPropCount" = "1"

The Backdoor deletes the following value(s) in system registry:

[HKCU\Identities]
"Changing"
"IncomingID"
"OutgoingID"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WAB]
"NamedProps"
"NamedPropCount"

Dropped PE files

MD5 File path
7f8e4af00552e9922d527f180389b6c9 c:\aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr

HOSTS file anomalies

The Backdoor modifies "%System%\drivers\etc\hosts" file which is used to translate DNS entries to IP addresses.
The modified file is 864 bytes in size. The following strings are added to the hosts file listed below:

127.0.0.1 jL.chura.pl
127.0.0.1 validation.sls.microsoft.com


Rootkit activity

The Backdoor installs the following user-mode hooks in ntdll.dll:

NtQueryInformationProcess
ZwOpenFile
NtDeviceIoControlFile
ZwCreateUserProcess
ZwCreateProcessEx
NtCreateProcess
ZwCreateFile

Propagation

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name Virtual Address Virtual Size Raw Size Entropy Section MD5
4096 16384 6656 5.29942 ed41050c46cf2dea26cf5a8d78627828
.rsrc 20480 102400 102400 3.08649 871890859be7e82fb07f51568a83a0ee
petite 122880 379 512 2.83683 d9152af36e3787ad41768ba5d11906da

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

Similar by SSDeep:

Similar by Lavasoft Polymorphic Checker:

Total found: 1
8e7071100cf50f1426275c83d9a5bec0

URLs

URL IP
teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com 157.56.106.189
sys.zief.pl 148.81.111.121
dns.msftncsi.com 131.107.255.255


IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

ET TROJAN Reply Sinkhole - irc-sinkhole.cert.pl

Traffic

The Backdoor connects to the servers at the folowing location(s):

%original file name%.exe_1796:

`.rsrc
D$(PSSh
ccRegVfy.exe
ccApp.exe
IEXPLORE.EXE
windows
\*.exe
@664>20[<0.
.text
.data
.rsrc
msvcrt.dll
KERNEL32.dll
nddeapir.pdb
_acmdln
m.Zw%
ADVAPI32.DLL
\USERINIT.EXE
%s:*:enabled:@shell32.dll,-1
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Qoysys.zief.pl
core.ircgalaxy.pl
NICK avabcadz
SFC.DLL
SFC_OS.DLL
USER32.DLL
SHLWAPI.DLL
WSOCK32.DLL
WININET.DLL
%.6x . . :%c%.8x%x %s
JOIN
127.0.0.1 jL.chura.pl
#<iframe src="hXXp://jL.chura.pl/rc/" style="width:1px;height:1px"></iframe>
KERNEL32.DLL
windowsupdate
drweb
user32.dll
kernel32.dll
MSVCIRT.dll
MSVCRT.dll
5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)
NDDEAPIR.EXE
Windows
Operating System
5.1.2600.0

%original file name%.exe_1796_rwx_00401000_00002000:

D$(PSSh

%original file name%.exe_1796_rwx_00419000_00005000:

ADVAPI32.DLL
\USERINIT.EXE
%s:*:enabled:@shell32.dll,-1
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Qoysys.zief.pl
core.ircgalaxy.pl
NICK avabcadz
SFC.DLL
SFC_OS.DLL
USER32.DLL
SHLWAPI.DLL
WSOCK32.DLL
WININET.DLL
%.6x . . :%c%.8x%x %s
JOIN
127.0.0.1 jL.chura.pl
#<iframe src="hXXp://jL.chura.pl/rc/" style="width:1px;height:1px"></iframe>
KERNEL32.DLL
windowsupdate
drweb


Remove it with Ad-Aware

  1. Click (here) to download and install Ad-Aware Free Antivirus.
  2. Update the definition files.
  3. Run a full scan of your computer.


Manual removal*

  1. Scan a system with an anti-rootkit tool.
  2. Terminate malicious process(es) (How to End a Process With the Task Manager):

    aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr:3416
    ntvdm.exe:1480

  3. Delete the original Backdoor file.
  4. Delete or disinfect the following files created/modified by the Backdoor:

    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FB.tmp (269 bytes)
    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\scs22FA.tmp (335 bytes)
    C:\Windows\System32\USR_Shohdi_Photo_USR.rsu (21682 bytes)
    C:\Windows\USR_Shohdi_Photo_USR.exe (6889123 bytes)
    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Setup.exe (408872 bytes)
    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Adobe\Reader 9.3\Setup Files\Reader9\Setup.exe (444160 bytes)
    C:\aa8055c6558ffcd6dc0f86dbf81f274f.usr (66189 bytes)

  5. Restore the original content of the HOSTS file (%System%\drivers\etc\hosts):
    127.0.0.1 localhost
  6. Clean the Temporary Internet Files folder, which may contain infected files (How to clean Temporary Internet Files folder).
  7. Reboot the computer.

*Manual removal may cause unexpected system behaviour and should be performed at your own risk.

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