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Database Entry



NanoCore


Vendor detections: 10


Intelligence 10 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 0fb9d2941fcb6d10158af985e601048bbf26d019bad9a5c9cd1f00676eb2105d
SHA3-384 hash: b967a1b7271c8a8bc37fb6482868b01338e98f37876f4070291e74f03acdf1d6d1c9dab374d75196ad74a8334745ee18
SHA1 hash: a6251713a8799d42f9c459d21ffde0030c689bb4
MD5 hash: 92e06ef177fa9a71c380de5f7786c4d8
humanhash: happy-minnesota-hotel-ceiling
File name:Purchase Order Price List.xlsx
Download: download sample
Signature NanoCore
File size:1'298'944 bytes
First seen:2021-06-08 06:23:24 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Excel file xlsx
MIME type:application/encrypted
ssdeep 24576:gcfIMxjbqrbEiW980Cu1MiVC0ob60Xq6G+fF5jzbTyPkQ5bHigMc3Gm2KB8g:tfIOyrbEiWa0Tiibob60XqLcjz/Oricx
TLSH 6F552339BCE89A60E48B9838947FA620723DCD4433D7D4133A1D76217A7017992EBFD9
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:CVE-2018-0802 NanoCore VelvetSweatshop xlsx

Office OLE Information


This malware samples appears to be an Office document. The following table provides more information about this document using oletools and oledump.

OLE id
Application name is unknown
Office document is in OLE format
Office document is in encrypted
OLE dump
Detection: VelvetSweatshop

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 6 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
164 bytesDataSpaces/DataSpaceInfo/StrongEncryptionDataSpace
2112 bytesDataSpaces/DataSpaceMap
3200 bytesDataSpaces/TransformInfo/StrongEncryptionTransform/Primary
476 bytesDataSpaces/Version
51284904 bytesEncryptedPackage
6224 bytesEncryptionInfo

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
99
Origin country :
n/a
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
Purchase Order Price List.xlsx
Verdict:
No threats detected
Analysis date:
2021-06-08 06:25:13 UTC
Tags:
encrypted

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
File type:
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Has a screenshot:
False
Contains macros:
False
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Creating a window
Launching a process
DNS request
Creating a file
Sending an HTTP GET request
Launching a file downloaded from the Internet
Creating a process from a recently created file
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
OOXML Excel File with Embedding Objects in Encrypted Excel File
Document image
Document image
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Macro Execution Coercion
Detected a document that appears to social engineer the user into activating embedded logic.
Document With No Content
Document contains little or no semantic information.
Result
Threat name:
Nanocore
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.expl.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
Adds a directory exclusion to Windows Defender
Allocates memory in foreign processes
C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration
Creates an undocumented autostart registry key
Detected Nanocore Rat
Drops PE files to the user root directory
Found malware configuration
Hides that the sample has been downloaded from the Internet (zone.identifier)
Injects a PE file into a foreign processes
Machine Learning detection for dropped file
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for domain / URL
Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Office equation editor drops PE file
Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802)
Sigma detected: Droppers Exploiting CVE-2017-11882
Sigma detected: EQNEDT32.EXE connecting to internet
Sigma detected: Execution from Suspicious Folder
Sigma detected: File Dropped By EQNEDT32EXE
Sigma detected: NanoCore
Sigma detected: Suspicious Process Start Without DLL
Sigma detected: WScript or CScript Dropper
Snort IDS alert for network traffic (e.g. based on Emerging Threat rules)
Writes to foreign memory regions
Wscript starts Powershell (via cmd or directly)
Yara detected Costura Assembly Loader
Yara detected Nanocore RAT
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 signatures2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 430901 Sample: Purchase Order Price List.xlsx Startdate: 08/06/2021 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 54 Snort IDS alert for network traffic (e.g. based on Emerging Threat rules) 2->54 56 Multi AV Scanner detection for domain / URL 2->56 58 Found malware configuration 2->58 60 18 other signatures 2->60 8 EQNEDT32.EXE 12 2->8         started        13 EXCEL.EXE 38 33 2->13         started        process3 dnsIp4 44 confucanism.hopto.org 198.12.127.155, 49165, 80 AS-COLOCROSSINGUS United States 8->44 30 C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\...\new[1].exe, PE32 8->30 dropped 32 C:\Users\Public\vbc.exe, PE32 8->32 dropped 68 Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802) 8->68 15 vbc.exe 7 8->15         started        34 C:\Users\...\~$Purchase Order Price List.xlsx, data 13->34 dropped file5 signatures6 process7 file8 36 C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\...\chromee.exe, PE32 15->36 dropped 38 C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\RegAsm.exe, PE32 15->38 dropped 40 C:\Users\user\AppData\...\_Hsuohaqtmz.vbs, ASCII 15->40 dropped 46 Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file 15->46 48 Creates an undocumented autostart registry key 15->48 50 Machine Learning detection for dropped file 15->50 52 3 other signatures 15->52 19 RegAsm.exe 5 15->19         started        24 wscript.exe 1 15->24         started        signatures9 process10 dnsIp11 42 wekeepworking.sytes.net 79.134.225.90, 1144, 49166, 49167 FINK-TELECOM-SERVICESCH Switzerland 19->42 28 C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\...\run.dat, data 19->28 dropped 62 Hides that the sample has been downloaded from the Internet (zone.identifier) 19->62 64 Wscript starts Powershell (via cmd or directly) 24->64 66 Adds a directory exclusion to Windows Defender 24->66 26 powershell.exe 6 24->26         started        file12 signatures13 process14
Threat name:
Document-OLE.Exploit.CVE-2018-0802
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2021-06-08 02:23:56 UTC
AV detection:
10 of 47 (21.28%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
nanocore
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:nanocore evasion keylogger spyware stealer trojan
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Launches Equation Editor
Modifies Internet Explorer settings
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Enumerates physical storage devices
Drops file in System32 directory
Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
Checks whether UAC is enabled
Loads dropped DLL
Uses the VBS compiler for execution
Blocklisted process makes network request
Downloads MZ/PE file
Executes dropped EXE
NanoCore
Malware Config
C2 Extraction:
wekeepworking.sytes.net:1144
wekeepworking12.sytes.net:1144
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

YARA Signatures


MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:Email_stealer_bin_mem
Author:James_inthe_box
Description:Email in files like avemaria
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Stomped_PECompilation_Timestamp_InTheFuture
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detect executables with stomped PE compilation timestamp that is greater than local current time
Rule name:IPPort_combo_mem
Author:James_inthe_box
Description:IP and port combo
Rule name:Select_from_enumeration
Author:James_inthe_box
Description:IP and port combo
Rule name:SharedStrings
Author:Katie Kleemola
Description:Internal names found in LURK0/CCTV0 samples
Rule name:UAC_bypass_bin_mem
Author:James_inthe_box
Description:UAC bypass in files like avemaria

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Web download

NanoCore

Excel file xlsx 0fb9d2941fcb6d10158af985e601048bbf26d019bad9a5c9cd1f00676eb2105d

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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