SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax_5bbb105f8c – Adaware

Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (BitDefender), MonitoringTool:Win32/Ardamax (Microsoft), HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Trojan.Win32.Ardamax.nbq (v) (VIPRE), Trojan.KeyLogger.22339 (DrWeb), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (B) (Emsisoft), Keylog-FAQ!5BBB105F8CA4 (McAfee), Win32.SuspectCrc (Ikarus), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (FSecure), Ardamax.BZV (AVG), Win32:Malware-gen (Avast), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (AdAware), SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax.FD, Trojan.Win32.IEDummy.FD, GenericEmailWorm.YR (Lavasoft MAS)Behaviour: Trojan, Worm, EmailWorm, Monitor, SpyTool

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

Summary

MD5: 5bbb105f8ca402be503cd6050e81c38d

SHA1: 24c14ba3c4849d564e2e587358abaea854c873ea

SHA256: 2475ae1c51e27d29771611ef4f4b6dbb3e1527266e78948119784c44d2268c7a

SSDeep: 49152:X6Bg4QexdkDjOu Et8kV/Hvz5a5rpJ5lNx:X6BgYwDjV Qz89J5z

Size: 2167296 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Packed

PEID: UPolyXv05_v6

Company: Conduit

Created at: 2014-01-12 23:04:25

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:864
TGKSrv.exe:1616

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

TGK.exe:1264
iexplore.exe:192

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:864 makes changes in the file system.

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

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

The process TGKSrv.exe:1616 makes changes in the file system.

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

%Program Files%\Microsoft\DesktopLayer.exe (56 bytes)

The SpyTool deletes the following file(s):

%Program Files%\Microsoft\pxB4.tmp (0 bytes)

The process TGK.exe:1264 makes changes in the file system.

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

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGKSrv.exe (56 bytes)

Registry activity

The process %original file name%.exe:864 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "F4 5D 4A 36 EE 46 2E CF CA BF F6 7F 0D DB AC EA"

[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\ShellNoRoam\MUICache]
"LangID" = "09 04"

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

[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"

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 SpyTool deletes the following value(s) in system registry:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@%System%]
"SHELL32.dll,-8964"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache]
"@shdoclc.dll,-880"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\D:]
"Procmon.exe"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@%System%]
"SHELL32.dll,-9227"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\%System%]
"cmd.exe"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\D:]
"sandbox_svc.exe"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@%System%]
"SHELL32.dll,-9217"
"SHELL32.dll,-9216"

The process TGK.exe:1264 makes changes in the system registry.

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

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "68 DC 09 05 3F 4E BD F8 CD B5 9A 1E 32 1F 5E 5E"

[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"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd75-744b-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\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]
"TGK Start" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGK.exe"

Dropped PE files

MD5	File path
3a0c9f59247090f2643cd597adb4c411	c:\%original file name%.exe
f28ef7b714353ed1d5607b2d3bddb484	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGK.01
82eee2254218d9dfa2c2e6a9bf42e386	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGK.02
3d3b23bff124821d8cca6e8a78f26255	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGK.exe
6ca5facebe3d5787dc313f7e69c9cb3b	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BDOBUI\TGKSrv.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	4.79593	81e45a5c05115536674bbb4173bba1a8
.rdata	45056	9232	9728	3.72834	02fe36e76de5cc9f834ba0e75c9a5052
.data	57344	8032	3584	1.58991	d4668da877d58af66239b78e3837253f
.rsrc	65536	2106924	2107392	5.31123	895e2aed51123aefd63d96fa2387aa3e
.reloc	2174976	4752	5120	2.51801	c1c353bf28dd868ed81faaad547dfa87

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Downloaded by:

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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

TGK.exe_1264:

.text

`.rdata

@.data

.rsrc

@.rmnet

udPh

PSSSSSSh

PSSSSSSh!

vSSSh

FTPjK

FtPj;

C.PjRV

tGHt.Ht&

.EKSWU

FTPG

FTPj

FtPS

H%x\U

H%x]U

=KNILw.tT=RCNEw

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