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Tuesday 20 September 2016

Malware spam: "Tracking data" leads to Locky

This spam has a malicious attachment leading to Locky ransomware:

From:    Loretta Gilmore
Date:    20 September 2016 at 08:31
Subject:    Tracking data


Good afternoon [redacted],

Your item #9122164-201609 has been sent to you by carrier.
He will arrive to you on 23th of September, 2016 at noon.



The tracking data (4fec25a8429fd7485c56c9211151eb42d59b57abf402cc363bc635) is attached.


The sender's name and reference numbers vary. Attached is a randomly named .ZIP file containing a malicious .js script named in the format tracking data ~C503090F~.js (the hexadecimal number is random) plus a junk file with a single-letter name.

Analysis of the attachments is pending.

UPDATE

Hybrid Analysis of various samples [1] [2] [3] [4] shows the script downloading from various locations:

akinave.ru/ckk7y
solenapeak.com/ha4n2
vetchsoda.org/uemmdt
akinave.ru/1e11lhrk


All of these are hosted on:

178.212.131.10 (21 Century Telecom Ltd, Russia)
95.173.164.205 (Netinternet Bilisim Teknolojileri AS, Turkey)


The malware then phones home to the following locations:

91.223.88.205/data/info.php (Anton Malyi aka conturov.net, Ukraine)
176.103.56.105/data/info.php (Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich aka xserver.ua, Ukraine)
46.38.52.225/data/info.php (TCTEL, Russia)
195.64.154.202/data/info.php (Ukrainian Internet Names Center, Ukraine)
kixxutnpikppnslx.xyz/data/info.php  [91.223.88.209] (Anton Malyi aka conturov.net, Ukraine)

A DLL is dropped with a detection rate of 13/57.

Recommended blocklist:
178.212.131.10
95.173.164.205
91.223.88.0/24
46.38.52.225
195.64.154.202

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