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Analysis of the Donot APT campaign

Malware analysis
Cyber Threat Intel
- Opendir analysis
- Victimology
Indicators Of Compromise (IOC)
References MITRE ATT&CK Matrix
Links

Malware analysis

86ccedaa93743e83787f53e09e376713.docx

The first sample of the campaign is a maldoc file using cve-2017-0199 (Template injection) for requests and executed the next stage of the infection.

This use RTF file with the cve-2018-0802 for execute embedded excel object by the CLSID of the Excel COM object.

This extract and execute the zip archive from the RTF file.

On the backdoor, we can see that can push an environment variable and create the "Mknyh" Mutex.

After performing the action, this install the let's encrypt certificate and collect the informations about the system and send it in the C2.

This collects the list of disks and the types of this.

This can save and execute a stream from the C2.

d2263c15dfcccfef16ecf1c1c9304064befddf49cdbbd40abd12513481d7faf7.doc

The second samples use the same TTPs and use Template injection.

The RTF file download and executed to drop the same backdoor.

01d85719c5fec354431881f304307bb5521ecf6cb50eec4d3ec40d103dd3d3ae.docx

The next sample uses Template injection too for download and executed to drop the RTF file.

The RTF file pushes a persistence with an LNK file, extracts the backdoor and executes on another instance of explorer.

The backdoor uses a timer for as anti-sandbox method and check the features.

This push in memory the backdoor and check the system informations.

This has the capacity to hijack the AVAST AV, send the informations and request to the C2 for commands. This can save a file and execute it on the computer.

pk_17e3a134ee4bcb50a9f608409853628ac619fd24cffd8d15868cf96ce63bb775.doc

This continues to use Template injection.

The RTF file dropped extract a js file, a dll and an exe file.

The js file executes the dll and the exe file for bypass the UAC by the UACme tool. The backdoor is the same that the first sample.

A1719.docx, INGOs Spending on Rohingyas.doc, Scan0012.docx

The TTPs is the same that the second sample for the last samples.

Cyber Threat Intel

Opendir analysis

We can note that the server is main hosted by DigitalOcean cloud provider.

IP	URL	Opendir	ASN	Organization	Route	Coordinates	Country
178.62.188.63	hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/EFILE	Yes	AS14061	DigitalOcean Amsterdam	178.62.128.0/18	52.3740,4.8897	Netherlands
178.62.186.233	hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/XLSSN	Yes	AS14061	DigitalOcean Amsterdam	178.62.128.0/18	52.3740,4.8897	Netherlands
156.67.222.128	hxxp[:]//noitfication-office-client.890m.com/fcfdae-9dfc335ca-bd10/NHSORE/jjhl	No	AS47583	Hostinger International Limited	156.67.208.0/20	1.3667,103.8000	Singapore
159.89.104.38	hxxp[:]//plug.msplugin.icu/MicrosoftSecurityScan/DOCSDOC	No	AS14061	DigitalOcean, LLC	159.89.96.0/20	50.1155,8.6842	Germany
157.230.213.81	hxxp[:]//mscheck.icu/SecurityScan/XLSS	No	AS14061	DigitalOcean, LLC	157.230.208.0/20	40.8043,-74.0121	United States
146.185.139.134	hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/11MVEM1X	No	AS14061	DigitalOcean Amsterdam	146.185.128.0/19	52.3740,4.8897	Netherlands
146.185.139.134	hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/FRSI080222F	No	AS14061	DigitalOcean Amsterdam	146.185.128.0/19	52.3740,4.8897	Netherlands

The group use multiple OS and Web Servers, this can be explained by two possible reasons. First, Donot can be multiple groups with differents levels of skills or the attacker have don't protect some servers due this used for weak interest targets.

IP	URL	Opendir	Webserver	OS
178.62.188.63	hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/EFILE	Yes	Apache	CentOS
178.62.186.233	hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/XLSSN	Yes	Apache	CentOS
156.67.222.128	hxxp[:]//noitfication-office-client.890m.com/fcfdae-9dfc335ca-bd10/NHSORE/jjhl	No	LiteSpeed	CentOS
159.89.104.38	hxxp[:]//plug.msplugin.icu/MicrosoftSecurityScan/DOCSDOC	No	Apache	CentOS
157.230.213.81	hxxp[:]//mscheck.icu/SecurityScan/XLSS	No	Nginx ?	Ubuntu ?
146.185.139.134	hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/11MVEM1X	No	Nginx	Ubuntu
146.185.139.134	hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/FRSI080222F	No	Nginx	Ubuntu

List of files on the opendir :

IP	URL	Files	Date (Last modified)	Size
178.62.188.63	hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/	DFILE DFILE- EFILE EFILE- LIN	2019-08-30 12:46 2019-08-29 12:05 2019-08-30 12:49 2019-08-29 12:19 2019-08-30 12:49	1.1M 1.1M 685K 685K 685K
178.62.186.233	hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/	DOCS DOCSN DOCSN-1 XLSS XLSSN XLSSN-1	2019-08-16 08:17 2019-08-27 07:03 2019-08-22 08:52 2019-08-16 08:26 2019-08-28 06:39 2019-08-22 08:59	1.1M 1.1M 1.7M 697K 685K 885K

We can confirm that the campaign have begin early August 2019 and reuse old tools.

Victimology

The victimology is based only on the actual enemies of India since the early August and focus on China (reconciliation with Greece) for help Pakistan in Kashmir crisis, Pakistan (Kashmir crisis), Iran (telecom directory) possible allied for Pakistan, same thing for Saudi Arabia.

We can see a transfer order for Chinese people in Greek.

But the more interesting rest the Iran number directory, we can see that originally available on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nepal.

Now, we can observe that the content is removed from the website.

This rest possible to findable this in the cache.This can give a probable conclusion that Iran will be aware about the Donot operation against, or Nepal is aware about it.

This offers an idea when the group have found and reedit the pdf to word document for weaponizing it as opportunity to exploit.

This can note that a group in the Donot organization is charged to collect the opportunities to exploit. We can note too that the group reuse old operations and samples for theirs operations.

Cyber kill chain

The process graph resume all the cyber kill chains used by the attacker.

References MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

List of all the references with MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

Enterprise tactics	Technics used	Ref URL

Indicators Of Compromise (IOC)

List of all the Indicators Of Compromise (IOC)

Indicator	Description
86ccedaa93743e83787f53e09e376713.docx	36eb4d0e5f2435e6a01d10ac9e0b362e49de990ac841ba536f63d5be76e99794
d2263c15dfcccfef16ecf1c1c9304064befddf49cdbbd40abd12513481d7faf7.docx	d2263c15dfcccfef16ecf1c1c9304064befddf49cdbbd40abd12513481d7faf7
01d85719c5fec354431881f304307bb5521ecf6cb50eec4d3ec40d103dd3d3ae.docx	01d85719c5fec354431881f304307bb5521ecf6cb50eec4d3ec40d103dd3d3ae
pk_17e3a134ee4bcb50a9f608409853628ac619fd24cffd8d15868cf96ce63bb775	17e3a134ee4bcb50a9f608409853628ac619fd24cffd8d15868cf96ce63bb775
A1719.docx	6b5d8a52ca5c9e90339c6c0f574dd5f6c4aaa63c88cf974d8caf6e3690259c14
57ecda52cfb12afa08e84fe86cd61a95.zip	557cdd4332765a5d223693f5c1e605bae17464919fd57f9a62a86e33cb07be7e
Scan0012.docx	5a19a1df087e0cc12e554b04dc383fb50b7c4a926ac34611acb43ab3cc4404e9
kb8989476.rtf	51dfa1d8c62598b0d03f77faa57887dcdeb0075216c35f5018609fbcb82c8672
C:\Windows\Tasks\wordfile.exe	9a3061631ff634d8f573b36c885e41f8d4508c53f372c858b8b484b1f928b49f
wine.exe	bb5d713e81f782fc1bbd636eb97689e2010e71f4219ef80b90d979a6045b345a
C:\Windows\Tasks\A64.dll	894bd1b82b451fd08d8ac3a3d4e8e248bbc1c153c557aebdfeaa7e1ffafef4d6
C:\Windows\Tasks\Serviceflow.exe	ecbaac40bd504defe4f5eaba468e53de10e99f4dca5d05790d26e3ee4e5ce37f
C:\Windows\Tasks\sinter.exe	6584b9e3849142d9c479ca58a0098636b556220e76b1ae1376f56dbdb80feb56
EFILE	b64691a3fff3b17eb1a169180f470bf1ea36c7793fe36e93ba8aad55fe4a5a83
DFILE	746b2a03a6413f97b66fc96c3e12204488f13f0c4b2255bee427b54291a9a639
DFILE-	ddc7d7cdc8ceb6a9c5cc776ccd7916cd4c16612aa54c5e0a9827303c6ab38eef
EFILE-	ed4a1c94b4e3b813ac352446aded7a7bbe1698cba436451a7d54b0bc55bf5b52
DOCS	322f48a07af27b22f9cd29f14abe390349262ac9db901759b03553fe0d71446e
DOCSN	c0a23116c1c7ced59ff8eae5ee96a48d436dd2e5b435a291003889d2ed9489e1
DOCSN-1	0ed911e6d672e8a830d13b2f62a06a74dd7bfff82a31cc8a5c169f2689c4255b
XLSS	365b35cff4e0314c6fa2bb5cd66d6040efba93b5857d5536bd6fea4d871afe33
XLSSN	cea33a195f791bb5db28d53b3a81dd407e107aa33a913475d07080df6167e7c6
XLSSN-1	f345c969b58aeda8e78743db529f3a0ff81ba227880bd90d46e47bf9a37b932b
en-content.com	Domain requested
bsodsupport.icu	Domain requested
cloud-storage-service.com	Domain requested
office360-pub.16mb.com	Domain requested
noitfication-office-client.890m.com	Domain requested
plug.msplugin.icu	Domain requested
mscheck.icu	Domain requested
sdn.host	Domain requested
178.62.186.233	IP requested
178.62.188.63	IP requested
156.67.222.128	IP requested
159.89.104.38	IP requested
157.230.213.81	IP requested
146.185.139.134	IP requested
hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/EFILE	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/DFILE	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/DFILE-	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/EFILE-	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//en-content.com/SecurityM/LIN	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/DOCS	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/DOCSN	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/DOCSN-1	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/XLSS	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/XLSSN	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//bsodsupport.icu/ScanSecurity/XLSSN-1	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//cloud-storage-service.com/pub/officex32x64/kb8989476	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//noitfication-office-client.890m.com/fcfdae-9dfc335ca-bd10/NHSORE/jjhl	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//plug.msplugin.icu/MicrosoftSecurityScan/DOCSDOC	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//mscheck.icu/SecurityScan/XLSS	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/11MVEM1X	HTTP/HTTPS requests
hxxp[:]//sdn.host/MicrosoftSecurityScan/FRSI080222F	HTTP/HTTPS requests
support.worldupdate.live	Doamin C2
account-support.site	Doamin C2
skillsnew.top	Doamin C2
mystrylust.pw	Doamin C2
216.170.126.139	IP C2
46.105.40.12	IP C2
82.196.7.221	IP C2
37.139.28.208	IP C2

This can be exported as JSON format Export in JSON

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Analysis of the Donot APT campaign

Table of Contents

Malware analysis

86ccedaa93743e83787f53e09e376713.docx

The first sample of the campaign is a maldoc file using cve-2017-0199 (Template injection) for requests and executed the next stage of the infection.

This use RTF file with the cve-2018-0802 for execute embedded excel object by the CLSID of the Excel COM object.

This extract and execute the zip archive from the RTF file.

On the backdoor, we can see that can push an environment variable and create the "Mknyh" Mutex.

After performing the action, this install the let's encrypt certificate and collect the informations about the system and send it in the C2.

This collects the list of disks and the types of this.

This can save and execute a stream from the C2.

d2263c15dfcccfef16ecf1c1c9304064befddf49cdbbd40abd12513481d7faf7.doc

The second samples use the same TTPs and use Template injection.

The RTF file download and executed to drop the same backdoor.

01d85719c5fec354431881f304307bb5521ecf6cb50eec4d3ec40d103dd3d3ae.docx

The next sample uses Template injection too for download and executed to drop the RTF file.

The RTF file pushes a persistence with an LNK file, extracts the backdoor and executes on another instance of explorer.

The backdoor uses a timer for as anti-sandbox method and check the features.

This push in memory the backdoor and check the system informations.

This has the capacity to hijack the AVAST AV, send the informations and request to the C2 for commands. This can save a file and execute it on the computer.

pk_17e3a134ee4bcb50a9f608409853628ac619fd24cffd8d15868cf96ce63bb775.doc

This continues to use Template injection.

The RTF file dropped extract a js file, a dll and an exe file.

The js file executes the dll and the exe file for bypass the UAC by the UACme tool. The backdoor is the same that the first sample.

A1719.docx, INGOs Spending on Rohingyas.doc, Scan0012.docx

The TTPs is the same that the second sample for the last samples.

Cyber Threat Intel

Opendir analysis

We can note that the server is main hosted by DigitalOcean cloud provider.

The group use multiple OS and Web Servers, this can be explained by two possible reasons. First, Donot can be multiple groups with differents levels of skills or the attacker have don't protect some servers due this used for weak interest targets.

List of files on the opendir :

We can confirm that the campaign have begin early August 2019 and reuse old tools.

Victimology

The victimology is based only on the actual enemies of India since the early August and focus on China (reconciliation with Greece) for help Pakistan in Kashmir crisis, Pakistan (Kashmir crisis), Iran (telecom directory) possible allied for Pakistan, same thing for Saudi Arabia.

We can see a transfer order for Chinese people in Greek.

But the more interesting rest the Iran number directory, we can see that originally available on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nepal.

Now, we can observe that the content is removed from the website.

This rest possible to findable this in the cache.This can give a probable conclusion that Iran will be aware about the Donot operation against, or Nepal is aware about it.

This offers an idea when the group have found and reedit the pdf to word document for weaponizing it as opportunity to exploit.

This can note that a group in the Donot organization is charged to collect the opportunities to exploit. We can note too that the group reuse old operations and samples for theirs operations.

Cyber kill chain

The process graph resume all the cyber kill chains used by the attacker.

References MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

List of all the references with MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

Indicators Of Compromise (IOC)

List of all the Indicators Of Compromise (IOC)

This can be exported as JSON format Export in JSON

Links

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/Timele9527/status/1173431630171492352

Links Anyrun:

Samples :

Opendir:

Documents:

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