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In TRU Positives, eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) provides a summary of a recent threat investigation. We outline how we responded to the confirmed threat and what recommendations we have going forward.
Here’s the latest from our TRU Team…
In June 2024, eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) observed an intriguing case involving a Vidar Stealer infection initiated through a fake IT support website (Figure 1). The infection began when the victim performed a web search for solutions to a Windows Update Error code.
During their search they visited PCHelper Wizards, an IT Support themed site, which provided instructions to resolve the issue using an obfuscated PowerShell script. This script eventually led to a Vidar Stealer infection using the updated Hijack Loader (IDAT Loader) variant that uses netsh.exe for process injection.
PCHelper Wizards, shown above, contains an article with a convenient solution to the error code sought out by the victim. The article even provides the instructions to run PowerShell as Administrator (Figure 2).
The user can copy the code from the website or download and execute it (Figure 3).
The script decodes the first Base64 string to hxxps://ghufal.answermedia[.]site/KB/KB66958646. The “Invoke-WebRequest” command uses this URL to download a ZIP archive and save it to a randomly generated directory within the %TEMP% folder.
After successfully downloading and verifying the presence of the file, the script decodes the second Base64 string to hxxps://ghufal.answermedia[.]site/KB/post.php?status=2. The script uses the URL to make a POST request, likely reporting back to the C2 that the download stage has been completed successfully.
If the script successfully executes the executable files found within the unzipped payload, it decodes the third Base64 string to another URL hxxps://ghufal.answermedia[.]site/KB/post.php?status=3.
It then sends a POST request to the URL to notify that the payload has been executed, marking the successful completion of the infection (Figure 4).
During our investigation, we discovered a related YouTube video containing comments from bots falsely claiming the solution was effective and boasting the validity of the solution.
The video includes the link to a malicious website and describes the steps required to execute the malicious PowerShell code (see Figure 5).
This case study highlights a concerning threat in which threat actors exploit common IT issues to deploy malware. The attackers cleverly created a scenario where users are lured to a fake IT support site offering a malicious PowerShell script to solve a Windows Update Error.
Our team of 24/7 SOC Cyber Analysts isolated the affected host and notified the customer of suspicious activities.
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The eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) is an industry-leading threat research team committed to helping your organization become more resilient. TRU is an elite team of threat hunters and researchers that supports our 24/7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs), builds threat detection models across the eSentire XDR Cloud Platform, and works as an extension of your security team to continuously improve our Managed Detection and Response service. By providing complete visibility across your attack surface and performing global threat sweeps and proactive hypothesis-driven threat hunts augmented by original threat research, we are laser-focused on defending your organization against known and unknown threats.