Trojan.NSIS.StartPage_a8920cc3c6

by malwarelabrobot on April 4th, 2018 in Malware Descriptions.

HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Artemis!A8920CC3C6A4 (McAfee), Trojan.NSIS.StartPage.FD, mzpefinder_pcap_file.YR (Lavasoft MAS)
Behaviour: Trojan-Downloader, Trojan


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

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

MD5: a8920cc3c6a4a133eca687271e6eed3e
SHA1: 0fb2e78e297cf5d0ac09098c8841429db1aa6847
SHA256: 51a46af47ccc584ff1007095a10d4c2bac53eb454ffca1d2c163521d3b3b8557
SSDeep: 1536:3qGaT/1sMrcvwms7Glz0DKVLc HoUANJDqGy4gMw PP3:3qRaMrUwmuvDWLc HDAP3y4T3
Size: 138368 bytes
File type: EXE
Platform: WIN32
Entropy: Not Packed
PEID: UPolyXv05_v6
Company: no certificate found
Created at: 2015-12-27 07:38:55
Analyzed on: Windows7 SP1 32-bit


Summary:

Trojan. A program that appears to do one thing but actually does another (a.k.a. Trojan Horse).

Payload

No specific payload has been found.

Process activity

The Trojan creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:2028

The Trojan injects its code into the following process(es):
No processes have been created.

Mutexes

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

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:2028 makes changes in the file system.
The Trojan creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\OutlookAutoConfig_eng.exe (1194058 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll (30 bytes)

The Trojan deletes the following file(s):

C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsg588C.tmp (0 bytes)
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp (0 bytes)

Registry activity

Dropped PE files

MD5 File path
0a4509e89d9a194e38dedd8fd74008fb c:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name Virtual Address Virtual Size Raw Size Entropy Section MD5
.text 4096 24124 24576 4.45853 1a13b408c917b27c9106545148d3b8d3
.rdata 28672 4714 5120 3.46982 921acf8cb0aea87c0603fa899765fcc2
.data 36864 154936 1536 2.97482 797517c6ef57aa95d53df2cf07568953
.ndata 192512 36864 0 0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
.rsrc 229376 89312 89600 2.14839 67a8ebd060d01016ae29eec6bfa38cb8

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

Similar by SSDeep:

Similar by Lavasoft Polymorphic Checker:

URLs

URL IP
hxxp://download.mailplug.com/outlook_auto_config/OutlookAutoConfig_eng.exe 14.49.36.173


IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

ET POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download HTTP
ET TROJAN VMProtect Packed Binary Inbound via HTTP - Likely Hostile
ET SHELLCODE Possible TCP x86 JMP to CALL Shellcode Detected

Traffic

GET /outlook_auto_config/OutlookAutoConfig_eng.exe HTTP/1.0
Host: download.mailplug.com
User-Agent: NSISDL/1.2 (Mozilla)
Accept: */*


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:45:06 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 22750434
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:38:14 GMT
Connection: close
ETag: "58dc99c6-15b24e2"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
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<<< skipped >>>

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

%original file name%.exe_2028:

.text
`.rdata
@.data
.ndata
.rsrc
Vj%SSS
uDSSh
hu2.iu
.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
GetWindowsDirectoryA
KERNEL32.dll
ExitWindowsEx
USER32.dll
GDI32.dll
SHFileOperationA
ShellExecuteA
SHELL32.dll
RegEnumKeyA
RegCreateKeyExA
RegCloseKey
RegDeleteKeyA
RegOpenKeyExA
ADVAPI32.dll
COMCTL32.dll
ole32.dll
verifying installer: %d%%
hXXp://nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
... %d%%
%u.%u%s%s
RegDeleteKeyExA
%s=%s
*?|<>/":
%s%s.dll
adm\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll
.reloc
WS2_32.dll
NSISdl.dll
invalid URL
Host: %s
GET %s HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: NSISDL/1.2 (Mozilla)
http=
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
Unable to open %s
%skB (%d%%) of %skB at %u.ukB/s
(%u hours remaining)
(%u minutes remaining)
(%u seconds remaining)
Downloading %s
%s$w:
Extract: C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp
nsq5919.tmp
kAutoConfig_eng.exe
:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp
c:\%original file name%.exe
%original file name%.exe
ers\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsg588C.tmp
C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\
1442278
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"><assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="Nullsoft.NSIS.exehead" type="win32"/><description>Nullsoft Install System v2.50</description><dependency><dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /></dependentAssembly></dependency><trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"><security><requestedPrivileges><requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/></requestedPrivileges></security></trustInfo><compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1"><application><supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/><supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/></application></compatibility></assembly>


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:2028

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

    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\OutlookAutoConfig_eng.exe (1194058 bytes)
    C:\Users\"%CurrentUserName%"\AppData\Local\Temp\nsq5919.tmp\NSISdl.dll (30 bytes)

  4. Clean the Temporary Internet Files folder, which may contain infected files (How to clean Temporary Internet Files folder).

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

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