Technical Information
To ensure autorun and distribution
Sets the following service settings
- [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcpeljlu] 'Start' = '00000002'
- [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcpeljlu] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe /d"<Full path to file>"'
- [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\hcpeljlu] 'ImagePath' = '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe'
Creates the following services
- 'hcpeljlu' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe /d"<Full path to file>"
- 'hcpeljlu' %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe
Malicious functions
To complicate detection of its presence in the operating system,
adds antivirus exclusion with following registry keys:
- [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths] '%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu' = '00000000'
Executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\netsh.exe' advfirewall firewall add rule name="Host-process for services of Windows" dir=in action=allow program="%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\svchost.exe" enable=yes>nul
Injects code into
the following system processes:
- %WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe
Modifies file system
Creates the following files
- %TEMP%\htfkhnma.exe
- %WINDIR%\syswow64\config\systemprofile:.repos
Moves the following files
- from %TEMP%\htfkhnma.exe to %WINDIR%\syswow64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe
Deletes itself.
Network activity
Connects to
- 'va##heim.cn':443
- 'mi##########m.mail.protection.outlook.com':25
- 'ou#####.office365.com':993
- 'sa####.#xtension.wisc.edu':443
- 'tr#####.hks.harvard.edu':443
- 'in###gram.com':443
- 'google.com':80
- 'as.#iz.cn':443
- '83.#7.73.44':423
- '17#.#13.115.135':423
- '80.#6.75.4':423
- '17#.#13.115.84':423
- '45.##3.201.238':423
- '62.##2.184.92':423
- '62.##2.184.58':487
- '17#.#13.115.136':423
- 'wo##.#-poster.info':25000
TCP
HTTP GET requests
- http://www.google.com/
HTTP POST requests
- http://wo##.###oster.info:25000/ via wo##.#-poster.info
Other
- 'va##heim.cn':443
- '62.##2.184.58':487
- '17#.#13.115.84':423
- '62.##2.184.92':423
- '45.##3.201.238':423
- '80.#6.75.4':423
- '17#.#13.115.135':423
- '17#.#13.115.136':423
- '83.#7.73.44':423
- 'in###gram.com':443
- 'tr#####.hks.harvard.edu':443
- 'sa####.#xtension.wisc.edu':443
- 'ou#####.office365.com':993
- 'as.#iz.cn':443
UDP
- DNS ASK va##heim.cn
- DNS ASK google.com
- DNS ASK in###gram.com
- DNS ASK 19#.###.211.95.in-addr.arpa
- DNS ASK tr#####.hks.harvard.edu
- DNS ASK sa####.#xtension.wisc.edu
- DNS ASK ou#####.office365.com
- DNS ASK 19#.###.#11.95.dnsbl.sorbs.net
- DNS ASK 19#.###.#11.95.bl.spamcop.net
- DNS ASK 19#.###.#11.95.zen.spamhaus.org
- DNS ASK 19#.###.##1.95.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
- DNS ASK 19#.###.#11.95.cbl.abuseat.org
- DNS ASK mi##########m.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS ASK as.#iz.cn
- DNS ASK wo##.#-poster.info
Miscellaneous
Creates and executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe' /d"<Full path to file>"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C mkdir %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\htfkhnma.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create hcpeljlu binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description hcpeljlu "wifi internet conection"' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start hcpeljlu' (with hidden window)
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\netsh.exe' advfirewall firewall add rule name="Host-process for services of Windows" dir=in action=allow program="%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\svchost.exe" enable=yes>nul' (with hidden window)
Executes the following
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C mkdir %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\cmd.exe' /C move /Y "%TEMP%\htfkhnma.exe" %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' create hcpeljlu binPath= "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\hcpeljlu\htfkhnma.exe /d\"<Full path to file>\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' description hcpeljlu "wifi internet conection"
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\sc.exe' start hcpeljlu
- '%WINDIR%\syswow64\svchost.exe'
