October 26, 2012

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eFax spam campaign delivers info stealer Trojan (Oct 26, 2012)

Dell SonicWALL UTM Research team discovered a new info stealer Trojan in the wild that steals account information from FTP and Email configuration files. The Trojan also drops a variant of the Zbot Trojan on the system.

The Trojan arrives in the form of an email purporting to be a fax message delivered by eFax Corporate. The user is encouraged to download and execute the attachment to view the fax:

Upon infection the Trojan performs the following DNS queries:

dechotheband.gr
barisdogalurunler.com
alpertarimurunleri.com
oneglobalexchange.com
rumanas.org
www.10130138.wavelearn.de
visiosofttechnologies.com
sgisolution.com.br
plusloinart.be
marengoit.pl
www.google.com

The Trojan adds the following files to the filesystem:

%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp215229.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp220286.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp224803.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp227637.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp230491.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp231913.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp233065.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp249648.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp252302.exe
%APPDATA%Ettohxiud.exe
%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTempabcd.bat

abcd.bat contains the following data. This is used to clean up parts of the infection process:

:ijk

del %1

if exist %1 goto

ijk

del %0

The Trojan adds the following key to the Windows registry to enable startup after reboot:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun {C05E9BBE-21ED-AD41-CB90-673CEB12442E} "%APPDATA%Ettohxiud.exe"

The Trojan downloads and runs the following files from various remote webservers:

The following encrypted communication was observed between the Trojan and a remote C&C webserver:

The unencrypted form of the above "CRYPTED" data that is sent is as follows. It contains sensitive system information::

The Trojan was observed iterating through the Program Files directory looking for FTP and Email configuration files. It steals credentials from the following FTP and Email softwares if present.

BulletProof FTP

Smart FTP

Turbo FTP

Sota's FTP

FTP Navigator

FTP Commander

FlashFXP

FileZilla

Cute FTP

Core FTP

Ultra FXP

Frigate3

FTP Explorer

SecureFX

Classic FTP

FTPVoyager

Wise FTP

SeaMonkey

Leech FTP

FTPGetter

3D-FTP

Go FTP

BlazeFtp

FTPNow

Pocomail

The Bat!

Thunderbird

The Trojan contains the following common word password list:

SonicWALL Gateway AntiVirus provides protection against this threat via the following signatures:

GAV: Androm.EFX
GAV: Tepfer.AIUQ
GAV: Zbot.EQLN_2
GAV: Zbot.AAN_62

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