Analysis by: Nathaniel Gregory Ragasa
ALIASES:

Trojan-Spy.Win32.Stealer.aqqo(KASPERSKY)

 PLATFORM:

Windows

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

  • Threat Type: Trojan Spy

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

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

It connects to certain websites to send and receive information.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size: 1,125,808 bytes
File Type: EXE
Memory Resident: No

Arrival Details

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

Information Theft

This Trojan Spy gathers the following data:

  • Gathers the following system information:
    • Ip Address
    • Username
    • OS information
    • GPU Information
    • Zipcode
    • Country
    • System Timezone
    • System Language
    • Screen Resolution
    • Hardware ID
  • Gathers information from the following application:
    • Firefox
    • Orbitum
    • MapleStudio
    • Chrome
    • Chromium
    • Chedot
    • Kometa
    • Epic Privacy Browser
    • Elements Browser
    • Opera
    • 7Star
    • Vivaldi
    • CentBrowser
    • Iridium
    • Uran
    • Citrio
    • Coowon
    • liebao
    • Amigo
    • Torch
    • Maxthon3
    • 360Browser
    • K-Melon
    • Sputnik
    • CocCoc
    • Nichrome
    • Chromodo
    • Mail
    • Brave-Browser
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Thunderbird
    • Waterfox
    • Cyberfox
    • K-Meleon
    • BlackHawk
    • Battle.net
    • Steam
  • Browser data relating to the following wallets:
    • Armory
    • Atomic
    • Binance
    • Coinomi
    • Electrum
    • Ethereum
    • Exodus
    • Guarda
    • Monero
    • Jaxx

Other Details

This Trojan Spy connects to the following URL(s) to get the affected system's IP address:

  • http://api.ip.sb

It connects to the following website to send and receive information:

  • http://gbs{BLOCKED}.com

It does the following:

  • It can avoid certain countries and IP addresses depending on the configuration received.
  • It searches for .txt file located in %Desktop% and %User Profile%\Documents containing the following strings:
    • *key
    • *wallet
    • *seed

(Note: %User Profile% is the current user's profile folder, which is usually C:\Documents and Settings\{user name} on Windows 2000(32-bit), XP, and Server 2003(32-bit), or C:\Users\{user name} on Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 2008(64-bit), 2012(64-bit) and 10(64-bit).)

  SOLUTION

Minimum Scan Engine: 9.800
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN FILE: 17.274.05
FIRST VSAPI PATTERN DATE: 25 Dec 2021
VSAPI OPR PATTERN File: 17.275.00
VSAPI OPR PATTERN Date: 26 Dec 2021

Step 1

Trend Micro Predictive Machine Learning detects and blocks malware at the first sign of its existence, before it executes on your system. When enabled, your Trend Micro product detects this malware under the following machine learning name:

     
    • TROJ.Win32.TRX.XXPE50FLM011

Step 2

Before doing any scans, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 users must disable System Restore to allow full scanning of their computers.

Step 3

Scan your computer with your Trend Micro product to delete files detected as TrojanSpy.MSIL.REDLINESTEALER.X. If the detected files have already been cleaned, deleted, or quarantined by your Trend Micro product, no further step is required. You may opt to simply delete the quarantined files. Please check the following Trend Micro Support pages for more information:


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