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| URL: | https://www.howtogeek.com/57552/the-10-most-ridiculously-awesome-geeky-computer-pranks/ |
| Full analysis: | https://app.any.run/tasks/603dab05-bbe0-41cf-a593-a853b20be549 |
| Verdict: | Malicious activity |
| Analysis date: | January 24, 2022, 19:13:29 |
| OS: | Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build: 7601, 32 bit) |
| Indicators: | |
| MD5: | 7FF4A47779CC30B612918728B69A062D |
| SHA1: | EAACE2BA7CFAA27078EC77C134247B3921ECEF4D |
| SHA256: | 976BD104C166CDFC0D18069C084D25F92F6288E207F68C7745CE4A4D40793F52 |
| SSDEEP: | 3:N8DSL/sClOZXFXHIJ3Wq+S5hfOcIdoQRA4Uo:2OL/jUHHEv+AnQRxUo |
MALICIOUS
Connects to CnC server
- chrome.exe (PID: 3976)
SUSPICIOUS
No suspicious indicators.INFO
Checks supported languages
- chrome.exe (PID: 3756)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3720)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3976)
- chrome.exe (PID: 432)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2708)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2276)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3632)
- chrome.exe (PID: 548)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2648)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3996)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2232)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2096)
- chrome.exe (PID: 892)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2704)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2792)
- chrome.exe (PID: 440)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3036)
- chrome.exe (PID: 4056)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2956)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3488)
- chrome.exe (PID: 1660)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2580)
- chrome.exe (PID: 1056)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2292)
- chrome.exe (PID: 1208)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2692)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2440)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2684)
- chrome.exe (PID: 892)
- chrome.exe (PID: 576)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3016)
- chrome.exe (PID: 1284)
- chrome.exe (PID: 4084)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2640)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2508)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2332)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2316)
- chrome.exe (PID: 300)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2260)
Reads the computer name
- chrome.exe (PID: 3720)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3976)
- chrome.exe (PID: 432)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3632)
- chrome.exe (PID: 2316)
Reads the hosts file
- chrome.exe (PID: 3720)
- chrome.exe (PID: 3976)
Application launched itself
- chrome.exe (PID: 3720)
Reads settings of System Certificates
- chrome.exe (PID: 3976)
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Total processes
73
Monitored processes
39
Malicious processes
0
Suspicious processes
0
Behavior graph
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Process information
PID | CMD | Path | Indicators | Parent process | |||||||||||
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| 3720 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir=null --disk-cache-size=1 --media-cache-size=1 --disable-gpu-shader-disk-cache --disable-background-networking "https://www.howtogeek.com/57552/the-10-most-ridiculously-awesome-geeky-computer-pranks/" | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | Explorer.EXE | ||||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: MEDIUM Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 3756 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=crashpad-handler "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data" /prefetch:7 --monitor-self-annotation=ptype=crashpad-handler "--database=C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Crashpad" "--metrics-dir=C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data" --url=https://clients2.google.com/cr/report --annotation=channel= --annotation=plat=Win32 --annotation=prod=Chrome --annotation=ver=86.0.4240.198 --initial-client-data=0xc8,0xcc,0xd0,0x9c,0xd4,0x6ee4d988,0x6ee4d998,0x6ee4d9a4 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: MEDIUM Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 432 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --gpu-preferences=MAAAAAAAAADgACAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAQAAAAgAAAAAAAAACgAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAA4AAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAAEAAAAAAAAAABAAAABQAAABAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAYAAAA= --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1036 /prefetch:2 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Exit code: 0 Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 3976 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=utility --utility-sub-type=network.mojom.NetworkService --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --lang=en-US --service-sandbox-type=network --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1244 /prefetch:8 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | chrome.exe | ||||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: MEDIUM Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 2648 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --lang=en-US --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=6 --no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1800 /prefetch:1 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Exit code: 0 Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 2708 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --lang=en-US --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=5 --no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1836 /prefetch:1 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 2276 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --lang=en-US --extension-process --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=4 --no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations --mojo-platform-channel-handle=2112 /prefetch:1 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 3632 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --gpu-preferences=MAAAAAAAAADgACAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAQAAAAgAAAAAAAAACgAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAA4AAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAAEAAAAAAAAAABAAAABQAAABAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAYAAAA= --use-gl=swiftshader-webgl --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1024 /prefetch:2 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 548 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --disable-gpu-compositing --lang=en-US --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=8 --no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations --mojo-platform-channel-handle=2916 /prefetch:1 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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| 3996 | "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1044,6331452884027909763,2271932323004051170,131072 --enable-features=PasswordImport --disable-gpu-compositing --lang=en-US --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=9 --no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations --mojo-platform-channel-handle=1924 /prefetch:1 | C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe | — | chrome.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Google LLC Integrity Level: LOW Description: Google Chrome Version: 86.0.4240.198 Modules
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Total events
18 186
Read events
18 102
Write events
84
Delete events
0
Modification events
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon |
| Operation: | write | Name: | failed_count |
Value: 0 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon |
| Operation: | write | Name: | state |
Value: 2 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\ThirdParty |
| Operation: | write | Name: | StatusCodes |
Value: | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\ThirdParty |
| Operation: | write | Name: | StatusCodes |
Value: 01000000 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon |
| Operation: | write | Name: | state |
Value: 1 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} |
| Operation: | write | Name: | dr |
Value: 1 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome |
| Operation: | write | Name: | UsageStatsInSample |
Value: 0 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Update\ClientStateMedium\{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} |
| Operation: | write | Name: | usagestats |
Value: 0 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} |
| Operation: | write | Name: | metricsid |
Value: | |||
| (PID) Process: | (3720) chrome.exe | Key: | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} |
| Operation: | write | Name: | metricsid_installdate |
Value: 0 | |||
Executable files
0
Suspicious files
14
Text files
49
Unknown types
1
Dropped files
PID | Process | Filename | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\BrowserMetrics\BrowserMetrics-61EEFA5C-E88.pma | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\241d8f9a-1c5a-4dfa-a283-0b7aff4f072c.tmp | binary | |
MD5:5058F1AF8388633F609CADB75A75DC9D | SHA256:CDB4EE2AEA69CC6A83331BBE96DC2CAA9A299D21329EFB0336FC02A82E1839A8 | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\26baffd4-2b9c-48e3-b2eb-4f33c1ef935a.tmp | text | |
MD5:C6685EED83C19667DC4FDB52DFCAEBBE | SHA256:0AAE052D6BF9BB8E6D88C638CE49440F67AF93578AFC351D2835EBDF266F1E22 | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences | text | |
MD5:C6685EED83C19667DC4FDB52DFCAEBBE | SHA256:0AAE052D6BF9BB8E6D88C638CE49440F67AF93578AFC351D2835EBDF266F1E22 | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Platform Notifications\LOG.old~RF12c6f2.TMP | text | |
MD5:109A25C32EE1132ECD6D9F3ED9ADF01A | SHA256:DA6028DB9485C65E683643658326F02B1D0A1566DE14914EF28E5248EB94F0DD | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Sync Data\LevelDB\LOG.old~RF12c5f8.TMP | text | |
MD5:64AD8ED3E666540337BA541C549F72F7 | SHA256:BECBDB08B5B37D203A85F2E974407334053BB1D2270F0B3C9A4DB963896F2206 | |||
| 3756 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\CrashpadMetrics.pma | binary | |
MD5:03C4F648043A88675A920425D824E1B3 | SHA256:F91DBB7C64B4582F529C968C480D2DCE1C8727390482F31E4355A27BB3D9B450 | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage\leveldb\LOG.old | text | |
MD5:7721CDA9F5B73CE8A135471EB53B4E0E | SHA256:DD730C576766A46FFC84E682123248ECE1FF1887EC0ACAB22A5CE93A450F4500 | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Site Characteristics Database\LOG.old | text | |
MD5:8FF312A95D60ED89857FEB720D80D4E1 | SHA256:946A57FAFDD28C3164D5AB8AB4971B21BD5EC5BFFF7554DBF832CB58CC37700B | |||
| 3720 | chrome.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Crashpad\settings.dat | binary | |
MD5:9C016064A1F864C8140915D77CF3389A | SHA256:0E7265D4A8C16223538EDD8CD620B8820611C74538E420A88E333BE7F62AC787 | |||
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HTTP(S) requests
2
TCP/UDP connections
186
DNS requests
118
Threats
0
HTTP requests
PID | Process | Method | HTTP Code | IP | URL | CN | Type | Size | Reputation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3976 | chrome.exe | GET | 200 | 23.32.238.219:80 | http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab?77c135443b09f56a | US | compressed | 59.9 Kb | whitelisted |
3976 | chrome.exe | GET | 200 | 23.32.238.219:80 | http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootstl.cab?d86d4327a1a9f1dd | US | compressed | 59.9 Kb | whitelisted |
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Connections
PID | Process | IP | Domain | ASN | CN | Reputation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3976 | chrome.exe | 142.250.185.237:443 | accounts.google.com | Google Inc. | US | suspicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 72.247.225.215:443 | widgets.outbrain.com | Akamai Technologies, Inc. | US | whitelisted |
3976 | chrome.exe | 151.101.2.49:443 | www.howtogeek.com | Fastly | US | malicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 142.250.185.136:443 | www.googletagmanager.com | Google Inc. | US | suspicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 142.250.186.46:443 | clients2.google.com | Google Inc. | US | whitelisted |
3976 | chrome.exe | 23.32.238.219:80 | ctldl.windowsupdate.com | XO Communications | US | malicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 151.139.128.11:443 | ads.servebom.com | Highwinds Network Group, Inc. | US | malicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 91.228.74.226:443 | secure.quantserve.com | Quantcast Corporation | GB | suspicious |
3976 | chrome.exe | 35.201.103.212:443 | selfishsnake.com | Google Inc. | US | whitelisted |
3976 | chrome.exe | 142.250.181.234:443 | content-autofill.googleapis.com | Google Inc. | US | whitelisted |
DNS requests
Domain | IP | Reputation |
|---|---|---|
clients2.google.com |
| whitelisted |
accounts.google.com |
| shared |
www.howtogeek.com |
| whitelisted |
connect.facebook.net |
| whitelisted |
fonts.gstatic.com |
| whitelisted |
widgets.outbrain.com |
| whitelisted |
www.googletagmanager.com |
| whitelisted |
ads.servebom.com |
| whitelisted |
ctldl.windowsupdate.com |
| whitelisted |
secure.quantserve.com |
| whitelisted |
Threats
PID | Process | Class | Message |
|---|---|---|---|
3976 | chrome.exe | Misc Attack | ET Threatview.io High Confidence Cobalt Strike C2 IP group 1 |
3976 | chrome.exe | Potentially Bad Traffic | ET INFO TLS Handshake Failure |