Analysis by: Jed Valderama

 PLATFORM:

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

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

  • Threat Type: Backdoor

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This backdoor 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

Tamaño del archivo 60,416 bytes
Tipo de archivo EXE
Fecha de recepción de las muestras iniciales 03 Sep 2012

Arrival Details

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

Installation

This backdoor drops the following copies of itself into the affected system:

  • {All User's Profile}\Local Settings\Temp\ms{random characters}.{extension name}
  • {All User's Profile}\svchost.exe

It injects codes into the following process(es):

  • wuauclt.exe

Autostart Technique

This backdoor adds the following registry entries to enable its automatic execution at every system startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
SunJavaUpdateSched = "{All User's Profile}\svchost.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\
Explorer\Run
{random number} = "{All User's Profile}\Local Settings\Temp\ms{random characters}.{extension name}"

Other Details

This backdoor connects to the following possibly malicious URL:

  • http://{BLOCKED}d.pl/image.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}a.pl/image.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}e.pl/image.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}m.ru/image.php
  • http://{BLOCKED}ge.com/image.php

NOTES:
Where {extension name} is any of the following:

  • BAT
  • CMD
  • COM
  • EXE
  • PIF
  • SCR