Technical Information
To ensure autorun and distribution
Sets the following service settings
- [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\apljwjeo] 'Start' = '00000002'
- [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\apljwjeo] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe /d"<Full path to file>"'
- [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\apljwjeo] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe'
Creates the following services
- 'apljwjeo' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe /d"<Full path to file>"
- 'apljwjeo' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.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\apljwjeo' = '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%\dtpezrpx.exe
- %WINDIR%\syswow64\config\systemprofile:.repos
Moves the following files
- from %TEMP%\dtpezrpx.exe to %WINDIR%\syswow64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe
Deletes itself.
Network activity
Connects to
- 'va##heim.cn':443
- '80.#6.75.77':482
- '62.##2.184.92':418
- '45.##3.201.238':418
- '17#.#13.115.84':418
- '80.#6.75.4':418
- '17#.#13.115.135':418
- '17#.#13.115.136':418
- '83.#7.73.44':418
- 'google.com':80
- 'i.###tagram.com':443
TCP
HTTP GET requests
- http://www.google.com/
Other
- 'va##heim.cn':443
- '80.#6.75.77':482
- '45.##3.201.238':418
- '17#.#13.115.136':418
- '62.##2.184.92':418
- '17#.#13.115.135':418
- '83.#7.73.44':418
- '80.#6.75.4':418
- '17#.#13.115.84':418
- 'i.###tagram.com':443
UDP
- DNS ASK va##heim.cn
- DNS ASK google.com
- DNS ASK i.###tagram.com
- DNS ASK 19#.###.211.95.in-addr.arpa
Miscellaneous
Creates and executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe' /d"<Full path to file>"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C mkdir %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\dtpezrpx.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create apljwjeo binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description apljwjeo "wifi internet conection"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start apljwjeo' (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\apljwjeo\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\dtpezrpx.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create apljwjeo binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\apljwjeo\dtpezrpx.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description apljwjeo "wifi internet conection"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start apljwjeo
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe'
