DHL spam campaign leads to MokesLoader Trojan Downloader (Jan 06, 2012)
SonicWALL UTM Research team observed a increase in spam campaigns employing DHL package delivery schemes. The emails pretending to be from DHL informs the user of a package being sent to their address and that the relevant tracking number is in the attachment. The zipped attachment in the email is a newer variant of the MokesLoader Trojan downloader.
Email subjects used in this spam campaign include:
- DHL Delivery refuse
- DHL Error package delivery
- DHL shipment status No***
- Error in the delivery address
- Error in the delivery address No*******
- Error package delivery
- Get your parcel No***
- Shipment Status No***
- Track your parcel No******
- Track your shipment No****
The body of the email is as shown below:
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear customer. Your package has been sent to your address. Please find a post label attached which contains a track number of your package. Thank you for your attention. DHL Global Services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
The following file with a misleading icon is present in the zip attachment:
It performs the following activities when executed:
- It creates the following files:
- %appdata%csrss.exe (Copy of itself) [Detected as GAV: “MokesLoader.MS (Trojan)]
- %appdata%MicrosoftProtectqbfbv.xx
- %appdata%MicrosoftProtectrpphtrt.nv
- It reports new infection to a remote server using a uniquely generated login id:
- GET /aaa/index.php?cmd=getload&login={removed}&sel=sp3ya&ver=5.1&bits=0&file=1&run=ok
- It creates the following registry entries to ensure infection on reboot:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerRun Clients “%appdata%csrss.exe”
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun mcoyr “rundll32 %appdata%MICROS~1Protectrpphtrt.nv, itgn”
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun imfblgk “rundll32 %appdata%MICROS~1Protectqbfbv.xx, namn”
- It creates a TCP backdoor on the infected machine
- It reports backdoor port to remote server:
- GET /aaa/index.php?cmd=getsocks&login={removed}&port=2592 HTTP/1.1
- The following commands were used to communicate with remote server
- getgrab
- getproxy
- getload
- getsocks
- It receives instructions from remote server and downloads additional malware.
SonicWALL Gateway AntiVirus provides protection against this threat with the following signatures:
- GAV: MokesLoader.MS (Trojan)
- GAV: MokesLoader.MK (Trojan)
- GAV: MokesLoader.LS (Trojan)
- GAV: MokesLoader.LH (Trojan)
- GAV: Dofoil.L#email (Trojan)
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