Wave of Zortob Backdoor Trojan discovered in the wild (Oct 18, 2013)

The Dell SonicWall Threats Research team have received reports of a recent wave of the Zortob Trojan in the wild. Trojans of this nature may have no particular objective upon infection but give an attacker a back-door into the infected systems through which any other malware can be installed. This Trojan is reported to arrive as an email attachment masquerading as a voicemail message.

Infection cycle:

The Trojan uses the following icon to pose as a voicemail message:

The Trojan adds the following files to the filesystem:

• %APPDATA%kqljentg.exe [Detected as GAV: Zortob.B_47 (Trojan)]
• {run location}VoiceMail_Round_Rock_(512)4584934.txt

Once it is run it will delete itself and create VoiceMail_Round_Rock_(512)4584934.txt in the same location:

It will then open notepad.exe to display the text file:

The following IP addresses for C&C servers were discovered in the binary:

• 62.75.242.232
• 5.39.84.59
• 89.144.14.28
• 106.186.23.14

The following encrypted communication was observed between the Trojan and a remote C&C server:

During analysis we discovered the unencrypted form of the data sent above:

The response from the C&C server suggests that the Trojan remain idle. We also discovered various other commands in the Trojan binary:

• idl
• run
• crc
• rem
• rdl
• red
• upd

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

• GAV: Zortob.B_47 (Trojan)

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