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File name:

plug.exe

Full analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/b712daf3-a3c8-47d0-9081-5e5372b2cc32
Verdict: Malicious activity
Threats:

PlugX is a remote access trojan that is used extensively by Chinese APTs. The malware is primarily employed for spying on victims and can perform a variety of malicious activities, such as logging users’ keystrokes and exfiltrating information from browsers.

Analysis date: November 15, 2018, 07:33:50
OS: Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build: 7601, 32 bit)
Tags:
trojan
plugx
Indicators:
MIME: application/x-dosexec
File info: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
MD5:

AC6F90E79E46F7CA9FDC8A75735EA7A1

SHA1:

8CCDAE0E07C1300F76E5010BB941B00620768C1B

SHA256:

197F763CB325D90B546F8C9913EA5C7B53FBBC3CC8620E620073EA54D6E6105F

SSDEEP:

6144:4iULHIwnYTB0HAbpGxmC8aEVWmzSWiAjOWWslIc:wnYToAbpGGaEvzSLAjOW13

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  • MALICIOUS

    • Loads dropped or rewritten executable

      • dascgosrky.exe (PID: 768)
    • Application was dropped or rewritten from another process

      • dascgosrky.exe (PID: 768)
    • Changes the autorun value in the registry

      • dascgosrky.exe (PID: 768)
    • PLUGX was detected

      • dllhost.exe (PID: 684)
    • Connects to CnC server

      • dllhost.exe (PID: 684)
  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Executable content was dropped or overwritten

      • plug.exe (PID: 1908)
    • Creates files in the user directory

      • plug.exe (PID: 1908)
    • Uses RUNDLL32.EXE to load library

      • dllhost.exe (PID: 684)
    • Creates files in the program directory

      • dllhost.exe (PID: 684)
  • INFO

    No info indicators.
Find more information about signature artifacts and mapping to MITRE ATT&CK™ MATRIX at the full report
No Malware configuration.

TRiD

.exe | Win64 Executable (generic) (64.6)
.dll | Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (15.4)
.exe | Win32 Executable (generic) (10.5)
.exe | Generic Win/DOS Executable (4.6)
.exe | DOS Executable Generic (4.6)

EXIF

EXE

MachineType: Intel 386 or later, and compatibles
TimeStamp: 2018:04:02 13:46:56+02:00
PEType: PE32
LinkerVersion: 10
CodeSize: 40448
InitializedDataSize: 226304
UninitializedDataSize: -
EntryPoint: 0x4ff0
OSVersion: 5.1
ImageVersion: -
SubsystemVersion: 5.1
Subsystem: Windows GUI

Summary

Architecture: IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386
Subsystem: IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_GUI
Compilation Date: 02-Apr-2018 11:46:56
Detected languages:
  • English - United States

DOS Header

Magic number: MZ
Bytes on last page of file: 0x0090
Pages in file: 0x0003
Relocations: 0x0000
Size of header: 0x0004
Min extra paragraphs: 0x0000
Max extra paragraphs: 0xFFFF
Initial SS value: 0x0000
Initial SP value: 0x00B8
Checksum: 0x0000
Initial IP value: 0x0000
Initial CS value: 0x0000
Overlay number: 0x0000
OEM identifier: 0x0000
OEM information: 0x0000
Address of NE header: 0x00000100

PE Headers

Signature: PE
Machine: IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386
Number of sections: 4
Time date stamp: 02-Apr-2018 11:46:56
Pointer to Symbol Table: 0x00000000
Number of symbols: 0
Size of Optional Header: 0x00E0
Characteristics:
  • IMAGE_FILE_32BIT_MACHINE
  • IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTABLE_IMAGE
  • IMAGE_FILE_RELOCS_STRIPPED

Sections

Name
Virtual Address
Virtual Size
Raw Size
Charateristics
Entropy
.text
0x00001000
0x00009CB5
0x00009E00
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
6.63318
.rdata
0x0000B000
0x00005AFC
0x00005C00
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
6.38868
.data
0x00011000
0x000326A0
0x00031600
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE
7.98433
.rsrc
0x00044000
0x000001B4
0x00000200
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
5.10501

Resources

Title
Entropy
Size
Codepage
Language
Type
1
4.79597
346
Latin 1 / Western European
English - United States
RT_MANIFEST

Imports

KERNEL32.dll
SHELL32.dll
USER32.dll
ole32.dll
No data.
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Total processes
35
Monitored processes
5
Malicious processes
2
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

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start plug.exe dascgosrky.exe #PLUGX dllhost.exe rundll32.exe no specs rundll32.exe no specs

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
1908"C:\Users\admin\Desktop\plug.exe" C:\Users\admin\Desktop\plug.exe
explorer.exe
User:
admin
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Exit code:
1
768"C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\dascgosrky.exe" C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\dascgosrky.exe
explorer.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Symantec Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Symantec 802.1x Supplicant
Exit code:
0
Version:
11.0.4010.7
684"C:\Windows\system32\dllhost.exe"C:\Windows\system32\dllhost.exe
dascgosrky.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
COM Surrogate
Version:
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
3168"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Windows\system32\wininet.DLL",DispatchAPICall 1 C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exedllhost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
LOW
Description:
Windows host process (Rundll32)
Exit code:
0
Version:
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
3952"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Windows\system32\wininet.DLL",DispatchAPICall 1 C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exedllhost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
LOW
Description:
Windows host process (Rundll32)
Exit code:
0
Version:
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Total events
385
Read events
364
Write events
21
Delete events
0

Modification events

(PID) Process:(768) dascgosrky.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Operation:writeName:difxapi32
Value:
C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\MICROS~1\Windows\NETWOR~1\DASCGO~1.EXE
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:EnableFileTracing
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:EnableConsoleTracing
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:FileTracingMask
Value:
4294901760
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:ConsoleTracingMask
Value:
4294901760
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:MaxFileSize
Value:
1048576
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASAPI32
Operation:writeName:FileDirectory
Value:
%windir%\tracing
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASMANCS
Operation:writeName:EnableFileTracing
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASMANCS
Operation:writeName:EnableConsoleTracing
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(684) dllhost.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\dllhost_RASMANCS
Operation:writeName:FileTracingMask
Value:
4294901760
Executable files
2
Suspicious files
4
Text files
0
Unknown types
1

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
1908plug.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\firefox.lnklnk
MD5:A832E4FD5F2970C218E2CC59F0C46250
SHA256:B55065C376B7A6C15D3A900BDB3263EBEBDF865B964E77B346095E747727860F
684dllhost.exeC:\ProgramData\gZwJElkSUikCYK\thspwdzuhgorikymbinary
MD5:F15D584A41B4F3BF5AD116924E3F7F07
SHA256:BF794CAEC23CE255C376B82F05A82067DABDE9FA6D8FFBCD63840F3FFBC8730D
1908plug.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\RasTls.dllexecutable
MD5:007E715DEA5E2F389850CB5D16DBEAC6
SHA256:1222B9F015782F075AAB2E17056911A0F9EB8A608990C06A3724229E919AF343
1908plug.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\dascgosrky.exeexecutable
MD5:62944E26B36B1DCACE429AE26BA66164
SHA256:F9EBF6AEB3F0FB0C29BD8F3D652476CD1FE8BD9A0C11CB15C43DE33BBCE0BF68
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HTTP(S) requests
1
TCP/UDP connections
2
DNS requests
2
Threats
0

HTTP requests

PID
Process
Method
HTTP Code
IP
URL
CN
Type
Size
Reputation
684
dllhost.exe
GET
94.177.12.253:80
http://login.vietnamairlines.cf/B0FE1FC426235C759B489926
NL
malicious
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Connections

PID
Process
IP
Domain
ASN
CN
Reputation
684
dllhost.exe
94.177.12.253:80
login.vietnamairlines.cf
WorldStream B.V.
NL
suspicious

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
login.vietnamairlines.cf
  • 94.177.12.253
malicious

Threats

PID
Process
Class
Message
Potentially Bad Traffic
ET INFO DNS Query for Suspicious .cf Domain
684
dllhost.exe
A Network Trojan was detected
MALWARE [PTsecurity] PlugX HTTP GET Request
1 ETPRO signatures available at the full report
No debug info