SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax_1fcbdcf83d – 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: 1fcbdcf83deb9581f070b519b6509354

SHA1: 2cdcb643706654a8c66cc454f304b383fa5c7417

SHA256: 444943fc6d2f549b8e9a4987b6348e04201424384a0b1501be1eeca609e51d58

SSDeep: 49152:wd82w5JzGo5 h4Hyi054H7z0iovSEgfzATV0EI2kqZWyZ: 8F535 h4St4b4iovR0ETF

Size: 2127872 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Packed

PEID: UPolyXv05_v6

Company: P i r i f o r m L t d .

Created at: 2014-05-21 08:08:03

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:552

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

CCJ.exe:1292

Mutexes

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

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:552 makes changes in the file system.

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

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.01 (82 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.00 (1 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.exe (15801 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.02 (56 bytes)

Registry activity

The process %original file name%.exe:552 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "24 E5 75 2B 4B 21 F0 41 43 4A 72 B1 8B 3D 0A A9"

[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"

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

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

[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"

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

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

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

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

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 CCJ.exe:1292 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "D6 E1 ED 45 EB 6C 3A A4 03 9D BE D5 7D 85 A4 EC"

[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]
"CCJ Start" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.exe"

Dropped PE files

MD5	File path
29164ede25dc60648de505abcb56a8b4	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.01
7e4a3954609fa7aab966a7dfef23ba39	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.02
53883bf3b374dbacfad4f63e1bad74a6	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GKHOIS\CCJ.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	40804	40960	4.75466	5968532880f212cc5e6384efa2a39488
.rdata	45056	9182	9216	3.85352	f535e05ebf941b1fdd990d0361ff1a30
.data	57344	8032	3584	1.58992	8f83bbd22817a195306cd7bc472b9f37
.rsrc	65536	2067560	2067968	5.3261	bc003a8125d951a9985397fc3db19994
.reloc	2134016	4756	5120	2.51484	abdc5a1fc656aabf18368eedf719ed51

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

CCJ.exe_1292:

.text

`.rdata

@.data

.rsrc

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SSh0FS

PSSSSSSh

PSSSSSSh!

vSSSh

FTPjK

FtPj;

C.PjRV

tGHt.Ht&

.EKSWU

FTPG

FTPj

FtPS

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