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Database Entry



PureLogsStealer


Vendor detections: 13


Maldoc score: 4


Intelligence 13 IOCs YARA 14 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 1ef1d38cc5161ca69827dbc049846c1b42f4ceef9a2b404189a6157e2ce84005
SHA3-384 hash: 4c3ae8a72240b3c5264413d1b555d79ee8c3012483c0f2d077788ccc06de4fec11b9911e2b7e51c330c5478a1902e8c7
SHA1 hash: e5bc69c8b6508ad214ec3e50a77e3f4d42b7adb2
MD5 hash: b012b388d89e054a926ebeac22fc83fa
humanhash: tango-california-coffee-sierra
File name:Quotation.xls
Download: download sample
Signature PureLogsStealer
File size:509'952 bytes
First seen:2024-01-24 13:52:18 UTC
Last seen:2024-01-24 14:39:23 UTC
File type:Excel file xls
MIME type:application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep 12288:jSNaBC6uEkbQpozwjTqCfgGEa6YBpiJKqsfBoXU+gYn/8sK:/w6sBWWCfggZBoUrmXULiK
TLSH T1ECB423013AC9CA6BC48681F40EE645CF0746BC022796E96F3578F7AD1A7AFD0C932657
TrID 46.5% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (alternate) (56500/1/4)
26.7% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (32500/1/3)
20.1% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (alternate) (24500/1/2)
6.5% (.) Generic OLE2 / Multistream Compound (8000/1)
Reporter cocaman
Tags:PureLogStealer QUOTATION xls


Avatar
cocaman
Malicious email (T1566.001)
From: "b.vanvenrooij@vbprofs.nl" (likely spoofed)
Received: "from unassigned.quadranet.com (unknown [69.174.98.60]) "
Date: "24 Jan 2024 13:38:28 -0800"
Subject: "Request for Quotation"
Attachment: "Quotation.xls"

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
Maldoc score: 4
OLE dump

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 21 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
1114 bytesCompObj
2244 bytesDocumentSummaryInformation
3200 bytesSummaryInformation
494 bytesMBD003AFF91/CompObj
562 bytesMBD003AFF91/Ole
620909 bytesMBD003AFF91/CONTENTS
794 bytesMBD003AFF92/CompObj
862 bytesMBD003AFF92/Ole
964357 bytesMBD003AFF92/CONTENTS
1099 bytesMBD003AFF93/CompObj
11186843 bytesMBD003AFF93/Package
12566 bytesMBD003AFF94/Ole
13218093 bytesWorkbook
14517 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECT
15104 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECTwm
16977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet1
17977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet2
18977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet3
19985 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/ThisWorkbook
202644 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/_VBA_PROJECT
21553 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/dir
OLE vba

MalwareBazaar was able to extract and deobfuscate VBA script(s) the following information from OLE objects embedded in this file using olevba:

TypeKeywordDescription
SuspiciousHex StringsHex-encoded strings were detected, may be used to obfuscate strings (option --decode to see all)

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
3
# of downloads :
378
Origin country :
CH CH
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
1ef1d38cc5161ca69827dbc049846c1b42f4ceef9a2b404189a6157e2ce84005.xls
Verdict:
Malicious activity
Analysis date:
2024-01-25 08:15:52 UTC
Tags:
maldoc phishing phishing-xls

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

Behaviour
Searching for the window
Sending a custom TCP request
Creating a window
Searching for synchronization primitives
Launching a process
Сreating synchronization primitives
Launching cmd.exe command interpreter
Sending an HTTP GET request
Launching a process by exploiting the app vulnerability
Unauthorized injection to a system process
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
Legacy Excel File with Macro
Payload URLs
URL
File name
http://107.172.31.179/500/cob/microcontentidentifiedthroughinternalprocesstogettheserviceandentirethingstogetherwithnewproject.doC
Embedded Ole
Behaviour
SuspiciousRTF detected
Document image
Document image
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
embedequation exploit macros shellcode sload
Label:
Benign
Suspicious Score:
2.3/10
Score Malicious:
24%
Score Benign:
76%
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Document With Few Pages
Document contains between one and three pages of content. Most malicious documents are sparse in page count.
Result
Threat name:
PureLog Stealer
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.expl.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
.NET source code contains potential unpacker
Antivirus detection for dropped file
Antivirus detection for URL or domain
Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit)
Excel sheet contains many unusual embedded objects
Machine Learning detection for dropped file
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Microsoft Office drops suspicious files
Microsoft Office launches external ms-search protocol handler (WebDAV)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Office equation editor drops PE file
Office equation editor establishes network connection
Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802)
Office viewer loads remote template
Shellcode detected
Sigma detected: EQNEDT32.EXE connecting to internet
Sigma detected: File Dropped By EQNEDT32EXE
Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)
Yara detected Costura Assembly Loader
Yara detected PureLog Stealer
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 signatures2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1380322 Sample: Quotation.xls Startdate: 24/01/2024 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 41 Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule) 2->41 43 Antivirus detection for URL or domain 2->43 45 Antivirus detection for dropped file 2->45 47 11 other signatures 2->47 7 EXCEL.EXE 58 53 2->7         started        process3 dnsIp4 39 107.172.31.179, 49160, 49161, 49162 AS-COLOCROSSINGUS United States 7->39 29 microcontentidenti...thnewproject[1].doc, ISO-8859 7->29 dropped 11 WINWORD.EXE 345 39 7->11         started        15 conhost.exe 12 2 7->15         started        17 AcroRd32.exe 27 7->17         started        file5 process6 file7 31 microcontentidenti...hnewproject.doC.url, MS 11->31 dropped 33 C:\Users\user\...\cob on 107.172.31.179.url, MS 11->33 dropped 35 ~WRF{73D75D18-86BF...6-0936BA32687D}.tmp, Composite 11->35 dropped 37 C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\...5F3A01A.doc, ISO-8859 11->37 dropped 53 Microsoft Office launches external ms-search protocol handler (WebDAV) 11->53 55 Office viewer loads remote template 11->55 57 Microsoft Office drops suspicious files 11->57 19 EQNEDT32.EXE 12 11->19         started        59 Antivirus detection for dropped file 15->59 61 Machine Learning detection for dropped file 15->61 63 Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function) 15->63 23 RdrCEF.exe 2 17->23         started        signatures8 process9 file10 25 C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\conhost.exe, PE32 19->25 dropped 27 C:\Users\user\AppData\...\conhost[1].exe, PE32 19->27 dropped 49 Office equation editor establishes network connection 19->49 51 Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802) 19->51 signatures11
Result
Malware family:
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:formbook family:zgrat campaign:b21s rat spyware stealer trojan
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Launches Equation Editor
Modifies Internet Explorer settings
Modifies registry class
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Uses Task Scheduler COM API
Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
Office loads VBA resources, possible macro or embedded object present
Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
Abuses OpenXML format to download file from external location
Executes dropped EXE
Loads dropped DLL
Blocklisted process makes network request
Downloads MZ/PE file
Formbook payload
Detect ZGRat V1
Formbook
ZGRat
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:Borland
Author:malware-lu
Rule name:Check_OutputDebugStringA_iat
Rule name:cobalt_strike_tmp01925d3f
Author:The DFIR Report
Description:files - file ~tmp01925d3f.exe
Reference:https://thedfirreport.com
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:informational_win_ole_protected
Author:Jeff White (karttoon@gmail.com) @noottrak
Description:Identify OLE Project protection within documents.
Rule name:maldoc_getEIP_method_1
Author:Didier Stevens (https://DidierStevens.com)
Rule name:maldoc_OLE_file_magic_number
Author:Didier Stevens (https://DidierStevens.com)
Rule name:malware_shellcode_hash
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect shellcode api hash value
Rule name:meth_get_eip
Author:Willi Ballenthin
Rule name:office_document_vba
Author:Jean-Philippe Teissier / @Jipe_
Description:Office document with embedded VBA
Reference:https://github.com/jipegit/
Rule name:PE_Digital_Certificate
Author:albertzsigovits
Rule name:SEH__vba
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:vmdetect
Author:nex
Description:Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

File information


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

Malspam

PureLogsStealer

Excel file xls 1ef1d38cc5161ca69827dbc049846c1b42f4ceef9a2b404189a6157e2ce84005

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via e-mail attachment

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