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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Feb 9 CVE-2011-1980 MSOffice DLL Loading vulnerability + Trojan Nflog

fputlsat.dll

On February 9, 2012 Symantec disclosed that the previously patched MS Office insecure library loading vulnerability was exploited in the wild. DLL loading vulnerabilities were used in targeted attacks at least with two other exploits in 2011 and they did not reach epidemic proportions like it happend with CVE-2010-3333 RTF or some of the Adobe PDF exploits. I refer to
Contagio: Sept. 23 CVE-2011-1991 type (1) deskpan.dll Windows components DLL loading vulnerability
and
Contagio: Apr 13 CVE-2011-2100 PDF - Adobe DLL Loading Vulnerability - Agenda.7z
DLL search order hijacking exploits had and will have many new reincarnations because of the DLL loading preference order - Current Working Directory is preferred for most DLL files. You can read more about the root of these problems (not necessarily related to MS Office but in general) in M-unition: DLL Search Order Hijacking Revisited by Nick Harbour
As described in the Symantec article, fputlsat.dll must be present in the same directory as the Word document in order to be activated by the ActiveX control embedded in the Word document. The payload of this sample is a backdoor trojan Nflog. 


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File Desription


File: 275c5ac2067d17187a71b94ccfdc4608.doc
Size: 22016
MD5:  275C5AC2067D17187A71B94CCFDC4608

Before the document is open -
DLL file is present is the same directory


The Word document has embedded macro - ActiveX List View Form Control, a very common ActiveX control, which calls fputlsat.dll  "Microsoft Office FrontPage Client Utility Library".  There is nothing unusual about this behavior,  you can read more about this particular control here "Using the ListView ActiveX Control"  and it is normal for it to call Frontpage libraries.


The vulnerability presents itself in the in the fact that a DLL located in
After the document is open.
DLL file is renamed to Thumbs.db
 the same folder as the Word document  will be used before the legitimate  DLL in  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\.. or other directories.





Activity after the exploit launch

Examination of the ActiveX component shows the original path of the macro/control as it existed on the author's computer  C:\Documents and Settings\Bandit\Local Settings\Temp\Word8.0\FPDTC.DLL (nice user name)
Office 8.0 is office 97 (yes, eons ago) and FPDTC.DLL is a Front Page Design Time Control that was used around 2000-2001. Considering this, I wonder if this vulnerability not only existed but also was used with minor tweaks through all versions of MS Office - starting with Office 97 and ending with Office 2010 we finally found it out. Perhaps, Microsoft Office/VB gurus will be able to answer and / or correct me.




List view control

Upon launch, the user is presented with a choice to Run or not to run ActiveX controls. By that time the exploit already worked and the files were dropped/renamed. Anwering Yes will allow the dropped payload iede32.ocx to run.
ActiveX prompt.


The picture below shows locations of the dropped file and the registry changes.



SVCHOST.EXE process injection

File: fputlsat.dll
Size: 126976
MD5:  60068812B59E58D6338AAEBD649F9020  

fputlsat.dll (thumbs.db) strings

Unicode Strings:
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Adobe Photoshop   ---- ???
Adobe Photoshop 6.0  ----- ? Unknown if these artifacts mean anything. Photoshop is just as old. May be same DLL code was used for other products.

 
VS_VERSION_INFO
StringFileInfo
040404b0
Comments
CompanyName
Microsoft Corporation
FileDescription
Microsoft Office FrontPage Client Utility Library
FileVersion
11.0.5510.0
InternalName
FP40CUTL
LegalCopyright
Copyright(C) Microsoft Corporation 2003.  All rights reserved.
LegalTrademarks
OriginalFilename
FP40CUTL
PrivateBuild
ProductName
FP40CUTL.DLL  -- Frontpage 2000 file. Wonder if Word 2000 was affected too.
ProductVersion
11, 0, 0, 0
SpecialBuild
VarFileInfo
Translation


Created Files

File: iede32.ocx
Size: 13824
MD5:  D4859FC951652B3C9657F8621D4DB625

Virustotal

 The trojan starts its activity POST /NfLog/Nfile.asp, this trojan is not new, for example there were Zero day CVE-2011-2462 files carrying the same trojan. The service modified is irmon (frequently abused by these types of attacks - here is a ThreatExpert report of a very common APT backdoor using the same service


List of strings




Key Name:          HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Irmon\Parameters
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   2/14/2012 - 1:40 AM
Value 0
  Name:            ServiceDll
  Type:            REG_EXPAND_SZ
  Data:            C:\WINDOWS\system32\iede32.ocx

Traffic

In my case, CC was not active or at least I didn't receive any traffic but you can see the initial POST and the domain name.
POST /IElog/TestURL.asp HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: www
Host: www.aviraco.com
Content-Length: 10
Pragma: no-cache

1234567890HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:39:57 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 39
<h1>Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)</h1>

  

Domain Name      : aviraco.com
PunnyCode        : aviraco.com
Creation Date    : 2011-03-30 10:31:10
Updated Date     : 2011-03-30 10:31:10
Expiration Date  : 2012-03-30 10:31:10

Registrant:
  Organization   : zhipengwang
  Name           : zhipengwang
  Address        : Zhongguancun Hailong Building, Room 1005
  City           : haidianqu
  Province/State : beijingshi
  Country        : china
  Postal Code    : 100083



216.83.63.147
Host reachable, 408 ms. average
216.83.32.0 - 216.83.63.255
Ethr.Net LLC
7960B Soquel Dr. #417
Aptos
CA
95003
United States

IP Address History
Event Date     Action     Pre-Action IP     Post-Action IP
2009-12-28     New     -none-     174.37.172.68
2010-09-13     Change     174.37.172.68     67.228.81.181
2010-09-24     Change     67.228.81.181     174.37.172.68
2011-02-02     Change     174.37.172.68     67.228.81.180
2011-02-13     Not Resolvable     67.228.81.180     -none-
2011-10-14     New     -none-     98.126.113.28
2011-10-25     Change     98.126.113.28     216.83.63.14

Registrar History
Date     Registrar
2009-12-26     Name.com aka DomainSite
2011-03-29     Xin Net

Name Server History
Event Date     Action     Pre-Action Server     Post-Action Server
2009-12-28     New     -none-     Name.com
2011-02-08     Delete     Name.com     -none-
2011-03-31     New     Xinnet.cn     Xinnetdns.com
2011-12-13     Transfer     Xinnetdns.com     Xincache.com

RR
www.comedns.com.    A    216.83.63.147
www.creamofa.com.    A    216.83.63.147

Automated Scans

Virustotal
SHA256:     429f206f2c68014c75f8a6ae09e68dd672401e461dd2fa72b9087bb5ee530d1e
SHA1:     7dbf130964cdc0110fd517a5d98188df3d56e850
MD5:     275c5ac2067d17187a71b94ccfdc4608
File size:     21.5 KB ( 22016 bytes )
File name:     report.doc
File type:     MS Word Document
Detection ratio:     17 / 43
Analysis date:     2012-02-15 04:10:05 UTC ( 46 minutes ago )
Antivirus     Result     Update
AhnLab-V3     Dropper/Ms11-073     20120213
AVG     Exploit_c.UDK     20120213
ClamAV     Exploit.Doc-2     20120214
Emsisoft     Exploit.MSWord.CVE-2011!IK     20120214
eSafe     -     20120213
eTrust-Vet     -     20120213
Fortinet     W97M/CVE_2011_1980.A!exploit     20120214
Ikarus     Exploit.MSWord.CVE-2011     20120214
Kaspersky     Exploit.MSWord.CVE-2011-1980.a     20120214
McAfee     Exploit-CVE2011-1980     20120214
McAfee-GW-Edition     -     20120213
Microsoft     Exploit:Win32/Actjack.A     20120213
NOD32     W97M/Exploit.CVE-2011-1980.A     20120214
nProtect     Trojan-Exploit/W32.Agent.22016     20120213
PCTools     Trojan.Generic     20120207
Sophos     Troj/Hijack-H     20120214
SUPERAntiSpyware     -     20120206
Symantec     Trojan.Activehijack     20120214
TrendMicro     TROJ_ACTIVEHIJ.A     20120213
TrendMicro-HouseCall     TROJ_ACTIVEHIJ.A     20120214
ViRobot     Doc.S.MS11-073.22016     20120213




Virustotal
SHA256:     48bc6c0df3302f7eaa6061c4f3b0357b4c512d5bd6f6088abc6fc274f2efc5aa
SHA1:     8f86b7fcaf0c1ee9b795fa8e559def47ef468128
MD5:     60068812b59e58d6338aaebd649f9020
File size:     124.0 KB ( 126976 bytes )
File name:     fputlsat.dll
File type:     Win32 DLL
Detection ratio:     28 / 43
Analysis date:     2012-02-15 04:10:02 UTC ( 23 minutes ago )
AhnLab-V3     Win-Trojan/Activehijack.126976     20120213
AntiVir     TR/Drop.Kaliox.A     20120213
Avast     Win32:Malware-gen     20120214
BitDefender     Trojan.Generic.KD.529689     20120214
DrWeb     Trojan.MulDrop3.34467     20120214
Emsisoft     Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent!IK     20120214
F-Secure     Trojan.Generic.KD.529689     20120214
Fortinet     W32/Agent.PRG!tr     20120214
GData     Trojan.Generic.KD.529689     20120214
Ikarus     Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent     20120214
K7AntiVirus     Riskware     20120213
Kaspersky     Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.gjnt     20120214
McAfee     Generic Dropper.p     20120214
McAfee-GW-Edition     Artemis!60068812B59E     20120213
Microsoft     TrojanDropper:Win32/Kaliox.A     20120213
NOD32     Win32/TrojanDropper.Agent.PRG     20120214
Norman     W32/Agent.XGSO     20120213
nProtect     Trojan-Dropper/W32.Agent.126976.CS     20120213
PCTools     Trojan.Dropper     20120207
Symantec     Trojan.Dropper     20120214
TrendMicro     TROJ_MULDROP.IC     20120213
TrendMicro-HouseCall     TROJ_MULDROP.IC     20120214
VIPRE     Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT     20120214
ViRobot     Trojan.Win32.Activehijack.126976     20120213
VirusBuster     Trojan.DR.Agent!ly6ZRARwo6A


Virustotal
 SHA256:     27c87e7993c5661dd3b65e51df5884519fc0234bf36de72082644fa909ccb793
SHA1:     d0c3e34bd97c4aa56fe9f176954d274595926a32
MD5:     d4859fc951652b3c9657f8621d4db625
File size:     13.5 KB ( 13824 bytes )
File name:     iede32.ocx
File type:     Win32 DLL
Detection ratio:     28 / 42
Analysis date:     2012-02-14 04:13:46 UTC ( 1 day, 2 hours ago )
0
AhnLab-V3     Win-Trojan/Activehijack.13824     20120213
AntiVir     TR/Spy.13824.71     20120214
Antiy-AVL     Trojan/Win32.Genome.gen     20120213
BitDefender     Gen:Trojan.Heur.LP.aq4@aqXBVhe     20120214
Comodo     TrojWare.Win32.GameThief.Nilage.~CRSH     20120214
DrWeb     Trojan.Click2.13847     20120214
Emsisoft     Trojan.Win32.Spy!IK     20120214
eSafe     Win32.GenHeur.LP.Aq@     20120213
F-Secure     Gen:Trojan.Heur.LP.aq4@aqXBVhe     20120214
Fortinet     W32/Agent.OLJ     20120214
GData     Gen:Trojan.Heur.LP.aq4@aqXBVhe     20120214
Ikarus     Trojan.Win32.Spy     20120214
K7AntiVirus     Riskware     20120213
Kaspersky     Trojan.Win32.Genome.aehtz     20120214
McAfee     Generic Dropper.p     20120214
McAfee-GW-Edition     Artemis!D4859FC95165     20120213
Microsoft     TrojanDownloader:Win32/Kaliox.A     20120213
NOD32     Win32/Agent.OLJ     20120214
Norman     W32/Troj_Generic.KIKX     20120213
nProtect     Trojan/W32.Genome.13824.J     20120213
Sophos     Troj/Spy-YL     20120214
Symantec     Trojan.Gen.2     20120214
TheHacker     Trojan/Agent.olj     20120213
TrendMicro     BKDR_CONIP.A     20120214
TrendMicro-HouseCall     BKDR_CONIP.A     20120214
ViRobot     Trojan.Win32.Activehijack.13824     20120214
VirusBuster     Trojan.Agent!KGIS/NcFcUc     20120213

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