We surmise that in the future, we may see other malware sporting the same routines as AV security continuous to grow. Furthermore, unsuspecting users won’t necessarily check for the registries but rather look for suspicious files or folders. The use of registry for evasion tactics is crucial given that file-based AV solution won’t be able to detect anything malicious running on the system.
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While routine of abusing Windows registry is no longer new, it may indicate that cybercriminals and attackers are continuously improving their ‘arsenal’ or malware so as to go undetected and to instigate more malicious activities without the user’s knowledge.
On the other hand, MORTO was encrypted in the registry. The encrypted stolen information is also stored in the registry entry. In addition, its (EMOTET) downloaded files are located in the entries. EMOTET, which sniffs network activity for information theft, has its PE component in the registry. Notable malware like EMOTET and MORTO also employed the same tactic of leveraging the registry.
DLL - 3506CE5C88EE880B404618D7759271DED72453FEĬybercriminals often use new tactics and techniques to avoid being detected in the system and remain under the radar.
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DLL files as TROJ_POWELIKS.A and the encoded script as JS_POWELIKS.A.
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The injected code is capable of downloading other malware, thus compromising the security of the system. DLL file is then injected in the normal DLLHOST.EXE process. DLL file can be found in the following code: This created registry data is shown below: It also creates another registry entry that contains the malware code. To put simply, users cannot see and therefore, delete the entry thus when they reboot the system, the malware will still run. However, the specific data will still execute during the system’s restart without any problem. Although there is an option to delete the registry key, deleting it will just result to an error due to the null value. Through a NULL registry value, users cannot see the content of the registry key with null value. This is not necessarily a new feature and is documented in MSDN. It then creates a blank or NULL Autostart entry using the API ZwSetValueKey: This technique is done as part of its evasion tactic since it will not be directly executed by windows or any application.
DLL) responsible for downloading other malicious files onto the infected system. As such, PowerShell runs the encoded script containing the malware’s executable code (which is also a. This will be used later to execute the encoded script file. Based on our analysis, TROJ_POWELIKS checks if Windows PowerShell is installed on the affected system, if not, it downloads and installs it to the infected system. As much as possible, threats tried to avoid being detected in the system and network in order to instigate more malicious activities. In addition, it has the capability to steal system information, which may be used by cybercriminals to launch other attacks.Īpart from stealth mechanism, this may also provide difficulty in forensics because there are no file references. When executed, TROJ_POWELIKS.A downloads files, which can cause further system infection. Systems affected by this malware risk being infected by other malware, thus causing further system infection. The said tactic provides evasion and stealth mechanisms to the malware, which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_POWELIKS.A. We spotted a malware that hides all its malicious codes in the Windows Registry.
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