Technical Information
To ensure autorun and distribution
Modifies the following registry keys
- [<HKCU>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] 'SGxMpWKABksq' = '%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\aero\Shell\ydidkuaEmVJiXgTK\svchost.exe'
Malicious functions
To complicate detection of its presence in the operating system,
adds antivirus exclusion with following registry keys:
- [<HKLM>\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] '%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\aero\Shell\ydidkuaEmVJiXgTK\svchost.exe' = '00000000'
- [<HKLM>\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] 'C:\Users\Public\69577.exe' = '00000000'
Creates and executes the following
- '' (downloaded from the Internet)
Creates and executes the following (exploit)
- 'C:\users\public\69577.exe'
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\69577.exe" -Force
Injects code into
the following user processes:
- 69577.exe
Modifies file system
Creates the following files
- C:\users\public\69577.exe
- %LOCALAPPDATA%\_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\3.492.646.394\tr3ss2uf.newcfg
- %WINDIR%\resources\themes\aero\shell\ydidkuaemvjixgtk\svchost.exe
Moves the following files
- from %LOCALAPPDATA%\_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\3.492.646.394\tr3ss2uf.newcfg to %LOCALAPPDATA%\_inc\69577.exe_url_sn2510xzumrt3pxrjh1ebmtm531qwn1e\3.492.646.394\user.config
Network activity
Connects to
- 'bi#.ly':80
- 'dq####edqedqe.tk':80
- 'ch####p.dyndns.org':80
- 'fr###eoip.app':443
TCP
HTTP GET requests
- http://dq####edqedqe.tk/liverpool-fc-news/features/steven-gerrard-liverpool-future-dalglish--goal-1C4E5953899830BFAA334ED34AFFAFF1.html
- http://dq####edqedqe.tk/liverpool-fc-news/features/steven-gerrard-liverpool-future-dalglish--goal-64AB7C2024ACD54E8ECBF95E75666268.html
UDP
- DNS ASK bi#.ly
- DNS ASK sc########opments.scaladevco.com
- DNS ASK dq####edqedqe.tk
- DNS ASK ch####p.dyndns.org
- DNS ASK fr###eoip.app
Miscellaneous
Creates and executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\aero\Shell\ydidkuaEmVJiXgTK\svchost.exe" -Force' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Public\69577.exe" -Force' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /c timeout 1' (with hidden window)
Executes the following
- '%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\equation\eqnedt32.exe' -Embedding
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe' Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\aero\Shell\ydidkuaEmVJiXgTK\svchost.exe" -Force
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /c timeout 1
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\timeout.exe' 1
