File name:

malware.ps1

Full analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/4ad0a329-5c1b-406a-a461-daeb62c487e2
Verdict: Malicious activity
Threats:

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration software toolkit developed by Forta. But its cracked versions are widely adopted by bad actors, who use it as a C2 system of choice for targeted attacks.

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Analysis date: July 31, 2024, 01:49:59
OS: Windows 10 Professional (build: 19045, 64 bit)
Tags:
cobaltstrike
Indicators:
MIME: text/plain
File info: ASCII text, with very long lines (65536), with no line terminators
MD5:

8EEA2778505DDA470DFE222FA260A7B7

SHA1:

11F42AA29D576220E9FE69366A7C7F99498EDA8C

SHA256:

F306F36CEDD08D9E83056F41564A96142611CCE5A38882EDD13046C402B628D8

SSDEEP:

6144:cUTXaH4di1kb6FFGaKMkWfjkY/9jZDEXNf+jCNUi:cqakbCFFRBbrlEXcCGi

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  • MALICIOUS

    • Bypass execution policy to execute commands

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)

    • COBALTSTRIKE has been detected (YARA)

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)

  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Uses base64 encoding (POWERSHELL)

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)

  • INFO

    • Gets data length (POWERSHELL)

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)

    • Uses string split method (POWERSHELL)

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)

    • Checks proxy server information

      • powershell.exe (PID: 5040)
Find more information about signature artifacts and mapping to MITRE ATT&CK™ MATRIX at the full report

CobalStrike

(PID) Process(5040) powershell.exe
C2 (1)bellebobas.com/gifs/
BeaconTypeHTTPS
Port443
SleepTime60000
MaxGetSize1050305
Jitter20
MaxDNS235
PublicKey-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDaxb4IJ+cn+nbIo0UAWhsGngA5 uQImWmV45RX6fH8ISCN93+Rh63Z4Vh2MyxHCoAqJ2pWtyptAbDAxkZQp66O9gDUJ SfnJ+LZffG3m66EstIkvj0dPIO0Aiox4KN37itYFtraVXy5B0MVcPLqpkagnmsxu JBWCVQrW/ObJDqw2kwIDAQAB -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
UserAgentMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36
HttpPostUri/temp/
Malleable_C2_InstructionsRemove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 by...
HttpGet_Metadata
ConstHeaders (4)Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
SessionId (4)mask
base64url
append: /kitten.gif
uri_append
HttpPost_Metadata
ConstHeaders (2)Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close
SessionId (3)mask
netbios
header: Authentication
Output (4)base64
prepend: {"image_url" : "https://sun9-23.userapi.com/G4JvdZDEfLdIPlNN1-JkMGQ2unf2KEIV54Om5g/abJ70jGHfVk.jpg", "metadata" : "
append: "}
print
SpawnTo00000000000000000000000000000000
Spawnto_x86%windir%\syswow64\dfrgui.exe
Spawnto_x64%windir%\sysnative\dfrgui.exe
CryptoScheme0
DNS_Idle8.8.4.4
DNS_Sleep30000
HttpGet_VerbGET
HttpPost_VerbPOST
HttpPostChunk0
Watermark666
bStageCleanupTrue
bCFGCautionFalse
bUsesCookies0000
Proxy_BehaviorUse IE settings
KillDate0-0-0
bProcInject_StartRWXTrue
bProcInject_UseRWXFalse
bProcInject_MinAllocSize16384
ProcInject_PrependAppend_x869090909090..9090909090
ProcInject_PrependAppend_x649090909090..9090909090
ProcInject_Stubd45171c77779f52ea22227abed2a6ba8
ProcInject_AllocationMethodNtMapViewOfSection
No Malware configuration.
No data.
screenshotscreenshot
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Total processes
144
Monitored processes
3
Malicious processes
1
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

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start #COBALTSTRIKE powershell.exe conhost.exe no specs slui.exe no specs

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
2988C:\WINDOWS\System32\slui.exe -EmbeddingC:\Windows\System32\slui.exe—svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Windows Activation Client
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\slui.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\advapi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\sechost.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
4460\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\conhost.exe 0xffffffff -ForceV1C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe—powershell.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Console Window Host
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\conhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\shcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
5040"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ep bypass C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\malware.ps1C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
explorer.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Windows PowerShell
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\oleaut32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
CobalStrike
(PID) Process(5040) powershell.exe
C2 (1)bellebobas.com/gifs/
BeaconTypeHTTPS
Port443
SleepTime60000
MaxGetSize1050305
Jitter20
MaxDNS235
PublicKey-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDaxb4IJ+cn+nbIo0UAWhsGngA5 uQImWmV45RX6fH8ISCN93+Rh63Z4Vh2MyxHCoAqJ2pWtyptAbDAxkZQp66O9gDUJ SfnJ+LZffG3m66EstIkvj0dPIO0Aiox4KN37itYFtraVXy5B0MVcPLqpkagnmsxu JBWCVQrW/ObJDqw2kwIDAQAB -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
UserAgentMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36
HttpPostUri/temp/
Malleable_C2_InstructionsRemove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 bytes from the beginning, Remove 64 by...
HttpGet_Metadata
ConstHeaders (4)Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
SessionId (4)mask
base64url
append: /kitten.gif
uri_append
HttpPost_Metadata
ConstHeaders (2)Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close
SessionId (3)mask
netbios
header: Authentication
Output (4)base64
prepend: {"image_url" : "https://sun9-23.userapi.com/G4JvdZDEfLdIPlNN1-JkMGQ2unf2KEIV54Om5g/abJ70jGHfVk.jpg", "metadata" : "
append: "}
print
SpawnTo00000000000000000000000000000000
Spawnto_x86%windir%\syswow64\dfrgui.exe
Spawnto_x64%windir%\sysnative\dfrgui.exe
CryptoScheme0
DNS_Idle8.8.4.4
DNS_Sleep30000
HttpGet_VerbGET
HttpPost_VerbPOST
HttpPostChunk0
Watermark666
bStageCleanupTrue
bCFGCautionFalse
bUsesCookies0000
Proxy_BehaviorUse IE settings
KillDate0-0-0
bProcInject_StartRWXTrue
bProcInject_UseRWXFalse
bProcInject_MinAllocSize16384
ProcInject_PrependAppend_x869090909090..9090909090
ProcInject_PrependAppend_x649090909090..9090909090
ProcInject_Stubd45171c77779f52ea22227abed2a6ba8
ProcInject_AllocationMethodNtMapViewOfSection
Total events
8 569
Read events
8 561
Write events
8
Delete events
0

Modification events

(PID) Process:(5040) powershell.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap
Operation:writeName:ProxyBypass
Value:
1
(PID) Process:(5040) powershell.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap
Operation:writeName:IntranetName
Value:
1
(PID) Process:(5040) powershell.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap
Operation:writeName:UNCAsIntranet
Value:
1
(PID) Process:(5040) powershell.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap
Operation:writeName:AutoDetect
Value:
0
Executable files
0
Suspicious files
3
Text files
2
Unknown types
0

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
5040powershell.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\53A71PU4GE2X03HXNC0U.tempbinary
MD5:E3B77C2F73B3279BC120A05E473B7D16
SHA256:147EFAA56072506590C173A0CE22E533556DB4EA2E05F2F14C22A7ADC764414F
5040powershell.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\590aee7bdd69b59b.customDestinations-ms~RF1c00f2.TMPbinary
MD5:D040F64E9E7A2BB91ABCA5613424598E
SHA256:D04E0A6940609BD6F3B561B0F6027F5CA4E8C5CF0FB0D0874B380A0374A8D670
5040powershell.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_qisiim0v.qt1.psm1text
MD5:D17FE0A3F47BE24A6453E9EF58C94641
SHA256:96AD1146EB96877EAB5942AE0736B82D8B5E2039A80D3D6932665C1A4C87DCF7
5040powershell.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_letsagyx.aqi.ps1text
MD5:D17FE0A3F47BE24A6453E9EF58C94641
SHA256:96AD1146EB96877EAB5942AE0736B82D8B5E2039A80D3D6932665C1A4C87DCF7
5040powershell.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\590aee7bdd69b59b.customDestinations-msbinary
MD5:E3B77C2F73B3279BC120A05E473B7D16
SHA256:147EFAA56072506590C173A0CE22E533556DB4EA2E05F2F14C22A7ADC764414F
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HTTP(S) requests
7
TCP/UDP connections
43
DNS requests
21
Threats
0

HTTP requests

PID
Process
Method
HTTP Code
IP
URL
CN
Type
Size
Reputation
3676
backgroundTaskHost.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEAn5bsKVVV8kdJ6vHl3O1J0%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
5368
SearchApp.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBTrjrydRyt%2BApF3GSPypfHBxR5XtQQUs9tIpPmhxdiuNkHMEWNpYim8S8YCEAI5PUjXAkJafLQcAAsO18o%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
4424
svchost.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBSAUQYBMq2awn1Rh6Doh%2FsBYgFV7gQUA95QNVbRTLtm8KPiGxvDl7I90VUCEAJ0LqoXyo4hxxe7H%2Fz9DKA%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
5368
SearchApp.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEAUZZSZEml49Gjh0j13P68w%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
5368
SearchApp.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEApDqVCbATUviZV57HIIulA%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
2928
backgroundTaskHost.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEAn5bsKVVV8kdJ6vHl3O1J0%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
4132
OfficeClickToRun.exe
GET
200
192.229.221.95:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEApDqVCbATUviZV57HIIulA%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
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Connections

PID
Process
IP
Domain
ASN
CN
Reputation
—
—
131.253.33.254:443
a-ring-fallback.msedge.net
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
US
unknown
4
System
192.168.100.255:138
—
—
—
whitelisted
6572
svchost.exe
40.127.240.158:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
IE
unknown
—
—
104.126.37.163:443
www.bing.com
Akamai International B.V.
DE
unknown
4520
slui.exe
20.83.72.98:443
—
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
US
whitelisted
6012
MoUsoCoreWorker.exe
40.127.240.158:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
IE
unknown
3688
RUXIMICS.exe
40.127.240.158:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
IE
unknown
1620
slui.exe
20.83.72.98:443
—
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
US
whitelisted
3952
svchost.exe
239.255.255.250:1900
—
—
—
whitelisted
5040
powershell.exe
172.234.222.143:443
bellebobas.com
Akamai International B.V.
US
unknown

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
t-ring-fdv2.msedge.net
  • 13.107.237.254
unknown
a-ring-fallback.msedge.net
  • 131.253.33.254
unknown
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
  • 40.127.240.158
  • 4.231.128.59
  • 20.73.194.208
whitelisted
www.bing.com
  • 104.126.37.163
  • 104.126.37.131
  • 104.126.37.128
  • 104.126.37.154
  • 104.126.37.139
  • 104.126.37.144
  • 104.126.37.129
whitelisted
google.com
  • 142.250.184.238
whitelisted
bellebobas.com
  • 172.234.222.143
  • 172.234.222.138
unknown
client.wns.windows.com
  • 40.113.110.67
whitelisted
fp-afd-nocache-ccp.azureedge.net
  • 13.107.246.42
whitelisted
login.live.com
  • 20.190.159.73
  • 40.126.31.73
  • 40.126.31.69
  • 20.190.159.68
  • 20.190.159.75
  • 20.190.159.4
  • 20.190.159.23
  • 20.190.159.2
whitelisted
ocsp.digicert.com
  • 192.229.221.95
whitelisted

Threats

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