SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax_d8bfc7c3bb

by malwarelabrobot on January 17th, 2014 in Malware Descriptions.

HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Trojan.Win32.Ardamax.nbq (v) (VIPRE), Win32.SuspectCrc!IK (Emsisoft), SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax.FD, GenericEmailWorm.YR (Lavasoft MAS)
Behaviour: Trojan, Worm, EmailWorm, SpyTool


The description has been automatically generated by Lavasoft Malware Analysis System and it may contain incomplete or inaccurate information.

Summary
Technical Details
Removal Recommendations

MD5: d8bfc7c3bbf7ad6a225c0569c1b562aa
SHA1: 0b4dc6b2504cac6e71f6f3c7442285b91017d0f7
SHA256: c61e01be6303729daa1b747786e4faae96530442af476fdac3438d2c04377d54
SSDeep: 49152: 3g wvwnudlErxWSF7YnxH9EpfnkFHYI5FpCPMwU: Q7vQu7W3 AfDqFB
Size: 2057216 bytes
File type: EXE
Platform: WIN32
Entropy: Packed
PEID: UPolyXv05_v6
Company: no certificate found
Created at: 2013-12-12 22:56:10
Analyzed on: WindowsXP SP3 32-bit


Summary:

SpyTool. A program used to apply passive protection methods to spyware, such as obfuscation, encryption or polymorphism. The original malicious program is usually encrypted/compressed and stored inside the wrapper.

Payload

Behaviour Description
EmailWorm Worm can send e-mails.


Process activity

The SpyTool creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:548

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

OGS.exe:1464

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:548 makes changes in the file system.
The SpyTool creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.exe (15021 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.00 (1 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.01 (81 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.02 (56 bytes)

Registry activity

The process OGS.exe:1464 makes changes in the system registry.
The SpyTool creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "7F FF 98 76 2E 20 71 BD DB 7D CB 28 AB A0 0F 77"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd73-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Programs" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd72-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd75-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{b98117e8-75ca-11e2-81b2-000c293708fb}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Personal" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\My Documents"

To automatically run itself each time Windows is booted, the SpyTool adds the following link to its file to the system registry autorun key:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"OGS Start" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.exe"

The process %original file name%.exe:548 makes changes in the system registry.
The SpyTool creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "08 78 1C 74 D4 81 84 CA 1E 40 17 FB 40 AE A2 3E"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd73-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Cookies" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Cookies"
"Cache" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Documents" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Documents"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Desktop" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Desktop"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd72-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd75-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET]
"OGS.exe" = "OGS"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Desktop" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{b98117e8-75ca-11e2-81b2-000c293708fb}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Personal" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\My Documents"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all urls to the Intranet Zone:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap]
"IntranetName" = "1"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all local web-nodes with no dots which do not refer to any zone to the Intranet Zone:

"UNCAsIntranet" = "1"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all web-nodes that bypassing proxy to the Intranet Zone:

"ProxyBypass" = "1"

Network activity (URLs)

No activity has been detected.

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation


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. Terminate malicious process(es) (How to End a Process With the Task Manager):

    %original file name%.exe:548

  2. Delete the original SpyTool file.
  3. Delete or disinfect the following files created/modified by the SpyTool:

    %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.exe (15021 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.00 (1 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.01 (81 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.02 (56 bytes)

  4. Delete the following value(s) in the autorun key (How to Work with System Registry):

    [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    "OGS Start" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\YEXJET\OGS.exe"

  5. Reboot the computer.

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

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