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Database Entry



FIN7


Vendor detections: 7


Intelligence 7 IOCs YARA 5 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: a818af0d4996a2120bc81e399b946f86b52fababc8904c49cd4ec1f298dc0199
SHA3-384 hash: 4893a733c11155cdbbdb1c4bf7d95820021b4374f0c41afefbb25d8a7c2bff1c99a78e92ba41bc853f3c9f77bec2c28a
SHA1 hash: 657d6e9722ee904578d44e16d2c497f04d3bcb1e
MD5 hash: 17735bdf3f19b51eaa45d6375f943f97
humanhash: louisiana-alanine-sink-juliet
File name:Tower messenger link.xls
Download: download sample
Signature FIN7
File size:260'608 bytes
First seen:2021-02-16 08:01:28 UTC
Last seen:2021-02-16 15:43:00 UTC
File type:Excel file xls
MIME type:application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep 3072:p2cdM+TzRd4nAkj915Rk5Q94IuTEfvrvxG/EuBGh3u:QcdzYj1Dk29/dst3
TLSH 35445AE04D55656F82B3BBE29C19AC2D42F8698B1C751AF2B1B403E1705128CFB1D9EF
Reporter cocaman
Tags:FIN7 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
Application name is Microsoft Excel
Office document is in OLE format
Office document is in encrypted
OLE dump

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 3 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
14096 bytesDocumentSummaryInformation
24096 bytesSummaryInformation
3249246 bytesBook

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
3
# of downloads :
162
Origin country :
n/a
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
Confidential messenger without censorship.rar
Verdict:
No threats detected
Analysis date:
2021-02-15 13:23:30 UTC
Tags:
n/a

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
File type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Has a screenshot:
False
Contains macros:
False
Result
Threat name:
Unknown
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
expl.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
Document exploit detected (creates forbidden files)
Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit)
Document exploit detected (UrlDownloadToFile)
Microsoft Office drops suspicious files
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Office document tries to convince victim to disable security protection (e.g. to enable ActiveX or Macros)
Queries sensitive BIOS Information (via WMI, Win32_Bios & Win32_BaseBoard, often done to detect virtual machines)
Queries sensitive network adapter information (via WMI, Win32_NetworkAdapter, often done to detect virtual machines)
Sigma detected: Microsoft Office Product Spawning Windows Shell
Sigma detected: Whoami Execution
System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit)
Uses whoami command line tool to query computer and username
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 353378 Sample: Tower messenger link.xls Startdate: 16/02/2021 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 33 civilizationidium.com 2->33 39 Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file 2->39 41 Office document tries to convince victim to disable security protection (e.g. to enable ActiveX or Macros) 2->41 43 Sigma detected: Microsoft Office Product Spawning Windows Shell 2->43 45 2 other signatures 2->45 9 EXCEL.EXE 89 47 2->9         started        14 OUTLOOK.EXE 509 22 2->14         started        16 EXCEL.EXE 3 2 2->16         started        18 WINWORD.EXE 3 5 2->18         started        signatures3 process4 dnsIp5 37 civilizationidium.com 195.2.92.62, 443, 49165, 49168 VDSINA-ASRU Russian Federation 9->37 31 C:\jibtitle\spaceodk\error.js, ASCII 9->31 dropped 55 Document exploit detected (creates forbidden files) 9->55 57 Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit) 9->57 59 Document exploit detected (UrlDownloadToFile) 9->59 61 Microsoft Office drops suspicious files 9->61 20 wscript.exe 1 9->20         started        file6 signatures7 process8 dnsIp9 35 civilizationidium.com 20->35 47 System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit) 20->47 49 Queries sensitive network adapter information (via WMI, Win32_NetworkAdapter, often done to detect virtual machines) 20->49 51 Queries sensitive BIOS Information (via WMI, Win32_Bios & Win32_BaseBoard, often done to detect virtual machines) 20->51 24 cmd.exe 20->24         started        signatures10 process11 signatures12 53 Uses whoami command line tool to query computer and username 24->53 27 whoami.exe 24->27         started        29 find.exe 24->29         started        process13
Threat name:
Document-Office.Trojan.Stratos
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2021-02-16 03:54:42 UTC
File Type:
Document
Extracted files:
3
AV detection:
8 of 47 (17.02%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
evasion macro trojan xlm
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Modifies Control Panel
Modifies Internet Explorer settings
Modifies registry class
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Enumerates physical storage devices
Drops file in Windows directory
Drops file in System32 directory
Checks whether UAC is enabled
Blocklisted process makes network request
Process spawned unexpected child process
Malware Config
Dropper Extraction:
https://civilizationidium.com/img/microsoft_logo.png
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: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.

Malspam

FIN7

Excel file xls a818af0d4996a2120bc81e399b946f86b52fababc8904c49cd4ec1f298dc0199

(this sample)

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