Gen.Application.LoadMoney.1_2a2a502563 – Adaware

Gen:Application.LoadMoney.1 (AdAware)Behaviour: Malware

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

Summary

MD5: 2a2a5025635682b6a4cb80e1c06c41dd

SHA1: ebb25aa2e32c8ac1a276a0a9f03069412eab4eba

SHA256: 00c4584e26e295880713718a015bcdb44844113afd0a6b26162a712c0c2561fd

SSDeep: 6144:PeZSa1tWauZo2Kyhyyyyy2lLtdF2Uv5bv:PeZr4a32Xv

Size: 251936 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Not Packed

PEID: UPolyXv05_v6

Company: no certificate found

Created at: 2014-06-25 09:12:36

Analyzed on: WindowsXP SP3 32-bit

Summary: Malware. Malware, short for malicious software, is any software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.

Dynamic Analysis

Payload

No specific payload has been found.

Process activity

The Malware creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:1860

The Malware 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:1860 makes changes in the file system.

The Malware creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\desktop.ini (67 bytes)

Registry activity

The process %original file name%.exe:1860 makes changes in the system registry.

The Malware creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths]
"Directory" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path4]
"CacheLimit" = "65452"
"CachePath" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Cache4"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path2]
"CacheLimit" = "65452"

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

"Cookies" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Cookies"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path2]
"CachePath" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Cache2"

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

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

[HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\0001\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable" = "0"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path1]
"CacheLimit" = "65452"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections]
"SavedLegacySettings" = "3C 00 00 00 1D 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "86 7C 1D 6D 67 9A 73 D4 0A 28 83 37 FF 70 D6 33"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path1]
"CachePath" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Cache1"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path3]
"CacheLimit" = "65452"

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

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path3]
"CachePath" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Cache3"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths]
"Paths" = "4"

The Malware 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:

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

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

"ProxyBypass" = "1"

Proxy settings are disabled:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable" = "0"

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

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"AutoConfigURL"
"ProxyServer"
"ProxyOverride"

Dropped PE files

There are no dropped PE files.

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation

Removals

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Run a full scan of your computer.

Manual removal*

Terminate malicious process(es) (How to End a Process With the Task Manager):
%original file name%.exe:1860
Delete the original Malware file.
Delete or disinfect the following files created/modified by the Malware:
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\desktop.ini (67 bytes)

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

Static Analysis

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name	Virtual Address	Virtual Size	Raw Size	Entropy	Section MD5
.text	4096	8500	8704	4.02205	fe6acf4624da8491c90b4ecd2abd9cb0
.data	16384	45988	46080	5.52544	7610e0e522be24d54c6922220c8eabc2
.bss	65536	172	0	0	d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
.idata	69632	1256	1536	2.99887	2dcf3a989c6f1e2503314415c051f1d1
.CRT	73728	24	512	0.07934	73fca18edf4b790a4256bc7bc8a21fc3
.tls	77824	32	512	0.14174	2466d3c49a5973ab5d4427a290a31b8b
.rsrc	81920	186620	186880	3.65276	340d421e140bd064bb8b1184a8ffaa2a

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

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Network Activity

URLs

IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

Traffic

Map

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

Strings from Dumps

%original file name%.exe_1860:

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libgcj_s.dll

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mingwm10.dll

__mingwthr_remove_key_dtor

__mingwthr_key_dtor

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Unknown pseudo relocation protocol version %d.

Unknown pseudo relocation bit size %d.

GetProcessHeap

KERNEL32.dll

msvcrt.dll

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