SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax_8d4f222c5f – Adaware

HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (B) (Emsisoft), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (AdAware), 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

MD5: 8d4f222c5f28e0306f34a913b5e48b1f

SHA1: 82c61df3df075a7ec28c550a289a2bcf285557ec

SHA256: 42533ca10b9729edc8caf17cec0bef1a61fa440d9e72da009c5c993606cece5d

SSDeep: 49152:UUYOFM5YWlxCI2ay7U729sgGKWirxkgqzhle/PL3oQn:UUFM2WC3awU729NGxiFF2h8c

Size: 2054656 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Packed

PEID: UPolyXv05_v6

Company: no certificate found

Created at: 2013-10-10 15:18:52

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.

Dynamic Analysis

Payload

Behaviour	Description
EmailWorm	Worm can send e-mails.

Process activity

The SpyTool creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:1676

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

HPJ.exe:884

Mutexes

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

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:1676 makes changes in the file system.

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

%WinDir%\NVLJUU\HPJ.00 (1 bytes)
%WinDir%\NVLJUU\HPJ.exe (15021 bytes)
%WinDir%\NVLJUU\HPJ.02 (56 bytes)
%WinDir%\NVLJUU\HPJ.01 (81 bytes)

Registry activity

The process %original file name%.exe:1676 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "92 38 59 D0 48 05 6B 58 F5 72 00 E6 1C B3 6F 98"

[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\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"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\%WinDir%\NVLJUU]
"HPJ.exe" = "HPJ"

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 the proxy to the Intranet Zone:

"ProxyBypass" = "1"

The process HPJ.exe:884 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "C6 58 8E 99 23 14 05 3A 1C AB 12 5B F6 FC 7C 8D"

[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]
"HPJ Start" = "%WinDir%\NVLJUU\HPJ.exe"

Dropped PE files

MD5	File path
2d3d2d84ad552e325b9fc05088717816	c:\WINDOWS\NVLJUU\HPJ.01
a5d03fa42bbc61b83633f48e116a0903	c:\WINDOWS\NVLJUU\HPJ.02
9bad0b2edb4dbb8cbba993d3192fa70c	c:\WINDOWS\NVLJUU\HPJ.exe

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation

Removals

Static Analysis

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name	Virtual Address	Virtual Size	Raw Size	Entropy	Section MD5
.text	4096	40340	40448	4.8235	261de96c442d72db74f13788a5a09cf6
.rdata	45056	9232	9728	3.72958	88e41e43a2075dc0bf713901dd97f9a1
.data	57344	8032	3584	1.58991	d4668da877d58af66239b78e3837253f
.rsrc	65536	1994504	1994752	5.34342	bbc139d33813e092f752139177bbcf73
.reloc	2060288	4752	5120	2.51899	b0010ab1a43e078069f1c623ab2001a7

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

Similar by SSDeep:

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Network Activity

URLs

IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

Traffic

Map

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

Strings from Dumps

HPJ.exe_884:

.text

`.rdata

@.data

.rsrc

udPh

PSSSSSSh

PSSSSSSh!

YYhl%S

YYhX%S

t/hL%S

t2h@%S

vSSSh

FTPjK

FtPj;

C.PjRV

tGHt.Ht&

.EKSWU

FTPG

FTPj

FtPS

H%XLU

H%XMU

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