Bank of America CashPro customers targeted by Tepfer variant (Feb 25, 2013)

The Dell SonicWALL UTM Research team received reports of a new variant of the Tepfer Trojan. The Trojan originates through an email purporting to be from Bank of America CashPro Online. It asks the user to replace their digital certificate with one provided in the malicious attachment. The Trojan also downloads and executes various other malwares such as Zeus during the infection process. Another variant of this malware has been covered recently in a previous sonicalert

Infection Cycle:

The email has an attachment with a zip file containing the Trojan executable:

The executable file in the attachment uses the following icon:

The Trojan performs the following DNS queries:

• blog.ritual.ca
• ftp.tecnoazar.com.ar
• preservationsolutionsplus.com
• omarpage.com
• www.google.com
• ceregypt.com
• cuatrofm.es
• two.really-good-books.com
• three.shell4pets.com
• dontgetcaught.ca

The Trojan adds the following files to the filesystem:

• %USERPROFILE%qyzozcewagje.exe [Detected as GAV: Pushdo.PKQ (Trojan)]
• %APPDATA%Aqripazyykej.exe [Detected as GAV: Sality.AM.gen (Virus)]
• %APPDATA%Aqripa9trZaHw9.exe [Detected as GAV: Sality.AM.gen (Virus)]
• %APPDATA%AqripaaL5DZn.exe [Detected as GAV: ZBot.EB_4 (Trojan)]
• %APPDATA%Aqripa4PsxF.exe (empty file)
• %TEMP%tmp0c9b3e815365.exe (empty file)
• %TEMP%tmpa6dcb566load50.exe [Detected as GAV: Kryptik.AUWV_2 (Trojan)]
• %TEMP%tmpd5e04e47a3.exe [Detected as GAV: Pushdo.PKQ (Trojan)]

The Trojan adds the following keys to the Windows registry:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFuith 2a33b827 “bAkSC4m6SY/fyYlkHb0=”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFuith 25bd6f75 “Xwl9Cw==”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFuith 6e9ddg5 “1l99C9j3KI+5ybtk”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFuith 1h1ci1jg hex:0e,09,7d,0b,3f,df,0d,de,7f,7d,93,dc,19,eb,4f, …
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFuith 2c6dd9ac “Dgl9C++6KI+
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun {C05E9BBE-21ED-AD41-CB90-673CEB12442E} “%APPDATA%Aqripazyykej.exe”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun qyzozcewagje “%USERPROFILE%qyzozcewagje.exe”

The Trojan injects code into the currently running instance of explorer.exe and exits:

The injected code causes explorer to download and run the following malicious executable files:

The Trojan was observed sending the following encrypted information to a remote webserver:

The code that is injected into explorer.exe contains the following data referencing various banking URL’s:

!https://*.lphbs.com/*
@https://*.onlineaccess*AccountOverview.aspx
@https://www.mercantilcbonline.com/secure/banking/protected/gridcard/*
@https://bancopostaimpresaonline.poste.it/bpiol/lastFortyMovementsBalance.do?method=loadLastFortyMovementList
@https://www3.csebo.it/*
@https://qweb.quercia.com/*
@https://www.sparkasse.it/*
@https://dbonline.deutsche-bank.it/*
@https://*.cedacri.it/*
@https://www.bancagenerali.it/*
@https://www.csebo.it/*
@https://*.deutsche-bank.it/*
@https://hbclassic.bpergroup.net/*/login
@https://nowbankingpiccoleimprese*
@https://www.inbiz.intesasanpaolo.com/*

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

• GAV: Tepfer.EB_2 (Trojan)
• GAV: Pushdo.PKQ (Trojan)
• GAV: Sality.AM.gen (Virus)
• GAV: Kryptik.AUWV_2 (Trojan)
• GAV: ZBot.EB_4 (Trojan)

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