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TrojanPSW.Win32.Zbot_c66aa8d688


HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Virus.Win32.Cryptor!IK (Emsisoft), Trojan-PSW.Win32.Zbot.6.FD, Trojan.Win32.Swrort.3.FD, BackdoorCaphaw_QKKBAL.YR, GenericInjector.YR, GenericIRCBot.YR, TrojanPSWZbot.YR, PUPTorClient.YR (Lavasoft MAS)Behaviour: Trojan-PSW, Trojan, Backdoor, Virus, PUP, IRCBot

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

Summary

MD5: c66aa8d6887da3dc3984442cc55af38b

SHA1: 7fc0acd56dc554fecd23adadca03aa0689cccfe9

SHA256: 2e902396ad661b927d5d18723c03f6841c60f35054eccea7291e9657a2f5be60

SSDeep: 49152:sMufVWnnqLnxJPXPEMR8QTB1JWtztDViOzMdehkr:sxfknqLnPPXPPRzV14tJvzjSr

Size: 16207162 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Not Packed

PEID: MicrosoftVisualCv71EXE, MicrosoftVisualCv70, UPolyXv05_v6

Company: WinterSoft

Created at: 2009-02-18 20:20:17

Summary: Trojan-PSW. Trojan program intended for stealing users passwords.

Dynamic Analysis

Payload

Behaviour Description
IRCBotA bot can communicate with command and control servers via IRC channel.


Process activity

The Trojan-PSW creates the following process(es):

iexplore.exe:948
iexplore.exe:1120
iexplore.exe:1988
iexplore.exe:1716
%original file name%.exe:1020
kyxa.exe:1336

The Trojan-PSW injects its code into the following process(es):

ctfmon.exe:536
iexplore.exe:996
iexplore.exe:972

File activity

The process iexplore.exe:996 makes changes in the file system.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\OpenCL.dll (51200 bytes)

The process iexplore.exe:972 makes changes in the file system.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.tmp.tmp (6020582 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.new (562757 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\hostname.tmp (24 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\state.tmp (1345 bytes)

The Trojan-PSW deletes the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\hostname (0 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors (0 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\state (0 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.new (0 bytes)

The process iexplore.exe:1120 makes changes in the file system.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\state.tmp (222 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.tmp.tmp (29893280 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-consensus.tmp (1107120 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\hostname.tmp (24 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.new (5958166 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\private_key.tmp (902 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-certs.tmp (16400 bytes)

The Trojan-PSW deletes the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors (0 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.new (0 bytes)

The process iexplore.exe:1988 makes changes in the file system.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\desktop.ini (67 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\OpenCL.dll (51200 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\desktop.ini (67 bytes)

Registry activity

The process ctfmon.exe:536 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ehocx]
"Evkadyyn" = "45 B3 24 A7 DC 3D 60 0D 45 20 DF AA 5C 4E D3 D3"

The Trojan-PSW deletes the following value(s) in system registry:


The Trojan-PSW disables automatic startup of the application by deleting the following autorun value:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"internat.exe"

The process iexplore.exe:996 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW 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" = "65324"
"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" = "65324"

[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" = "65324"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections]
"SavedLegacySettings" = "3C 00 00 00 31 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "7C E5 D9 95 62 E1 9A 20 E6 8A EE CC 4A 30 67 E4"

[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" = "65324"

[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"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ehocx]
"Evkadyyn" = "45 B3 24 A7 DC 3D 60 0D 45 20 DF AA 5C 4E D3 D3"

The Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW deletes the following value(s) in system registry:

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

The process iexplore.exe:972 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "53 3C CC CD 5E BD 67 1C 71 99 F2 16 41 90 61 F5"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{ebcf8d94-66db-11de-b228-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{d8c0d8da-77bd-11e0-bb02-000c293bc0fd}]
"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\{91167d42-103d-11db-8c91-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ehocx]
"Evkadyyn" = "45 B3 24 A7 DC 3D 60 0D 45 20 DF AA 5C 4E D3 D3"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{91167d45-103d-11db-8c91-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

The process iexplore.exe:1120 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "44 C2 9B 08 33 56 03 86 91 E5 AA 42 02 C0 D3 66"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{ebcf8d94-66db-11de-b228-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{d8c0d8da-77bd-11e0-bb02-000c293bc0fd}]
"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\{91167d42-103d-11db-8c91-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{91167d45-103d-11db-8c91-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

The process iexplore.exe:1988 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW 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" = "65324"
"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" = "65324"

[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" = "65324"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections]
"SavedLegacySettings" = "3C 00 00 00 2F 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "3E 77 00 D6 97 58 5E D2 F4 7B 94 E6 2D BE 31 5E"

[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" = "65324"

[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 Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW 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 Trojan-PSW deletes the following value(s) in system registry:

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

The process %original file name%.exe:1020 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "D2 16 98 6E 4C E9 DA 16 62 8F F9 5D EC 0A 0E 4E"

The process kyxa.exe:1336 makes changes in the system registry.


The Trojan-PSW creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "50 F6 06 4A D6 F1 08 A7 5F 72 67 9B 6A DE 79 AE"

Network activity (URLs)

URL IP
hxxp://checkip.dyndns.com/
checkip.dyndns.org216.146.43.70


HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in WININET.dll:

HttpSendRequestExA
HttpSendRequestW
InternetReadFileExA
InternetQueryDataAvailable
HttpSendRequestExW
InternetReadFile
HttpQueryInfoA
HttpSendRequestA
InternetCloseHandle

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in CRYPT32.dll:

PFXImportCertStore

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in USER32.dll:

SetCursorPos
DefMDIChildProcA
DefFrameProcA
DefDlgProcA
GetClipboardData
DefMDIChildProcW
DefFrameProcW
GetUpdateRgn
RegisterClassA
GetDCEx
ReleaseCapture
SetCapture
DefWindowProcA
CallWindowProcA
GetUpdateRect
PeekMessageA
CallWindowProcW
GetMessagePos
GetCursorPos
EndPaint
BeginPaint
DefWindowProcW
RegisterClassExA
GetMessageA
DefDlgProcW
SwitchDesktop
OpenInputDesktop
RegisterClassExW
RegisterClassW
GetCapture
PeekMessageW
GetMessageW
GetWindowDC
TranslateMessage
GetDC
ReleaseDC

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in WS2_32.dll:

WSASend
send
closesocket

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in kernel32.dll:

GetFileAttributesExW

The Trojan-PSW installs the following user-mode hooks in ntdll.dll:

LdrLoadDll
NtCreateThread

Propagation

Removals

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. Scan a system with an anti-rootkit tool.
  2. Terminate malicious process(es) (How to End a Process With the Task Manager):

    iexplore.exe:948
    iexplore.exe:1120
    iexplore.exe:1988
    iexplore.exe:1716
    %original file name%.exe:1020
    kyxa.exe:1336

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

    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\OpenCL.dll (51200 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.tmp.tmp (6020582 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-descriptors.new (562757 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\hostname.tmp (24 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\state.tmp (1345 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-consensus.tmp (1107120 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\hidden_service\private_key.tmp (902 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data\tor\cached-certs.tmp (16400 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\desktop.ini (67 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\desktop.ini (67 bytes)

  5. Clean the Temporary Internet Files folder, which may contain infected files (How to clean Temporary Internet Files folder).
  6. Reboot the computer.
*Manual removal may cause unexpected system behaviour and should be performed at your own risk.

Static Analysis

Network Activity

Map

Strings from Dumps