al-khaser is a PoC malware with good intentions that aimes to stress your anti-malware system. It performs a bunch of nowadays malwares tricks and the goal is to see if you stay under the radar.
Possible uses
- You are making an anti-debug plugin and you want to check its effectiveness.
- You want to ensure that your sandbox solution is hidden enough.
- Or you want to ensure that your malware analysis environement is well hidden.
Features
Anti-debugging attacks
- IsDebuggerPresent
- CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent
- Process Environement Block (BeingDebugged)
- Process Environement Block (NtGlobalFlag)
- ProcessHeap (Flags)
- ProcessHeap (ForceFlags)
- NtQueryInformationProcess (ProcessDebugPort)
- NtQueryInformationProcess (ProcessDebugFlags)
- NtQueryInformationProcess (ProcessDebugObject)
- NtSetInformationThread (HideThreadFromDebugger)
- NtQueryObject (ObjectTypeInformation)
- NtQueryObject (ObjectAllTypesInformation)
- CloseHanlde (NtClose) Invalide Handle
- SetHandleInformation (Protected Handle)
- UnhandledExceptionFilter
- OutputDebugString (GetLastError())
- Hardware Breakpoints (SEH / GetThreadContext)
- Software Breakpoints (INT3 / 0xCC)
- Memory Breakpoints (PAGE_GUARD)
- Interrupt 0x2d
- Interrupt 1
- Parent Process (Explorer.exe)
- SeDebugPrivilege (Csrss.exe)
- NtYieldExecution / SwitchToThread
Anti-Dumping
- Erase PE header from memory
- SizeOfImage
Timing Attacks [Anti-Sandbox]
- Sleep -> SleepEx -> NtDelayExecution
- Sleep (in a loop a small delay)
- Sleep and check if time was accelerated (GetTickCount)
- SetTimer (Standard Windows Timers)
- timeSetEvent (Multimedia Timers)
- WaitForSingleObject -> WaitForSingleObjectEx -> NtWaitForSingleObject
- WaitForMultipleObjects -> WaitForMultipleObjectsEx -> NtWaitForMultipleObjects (todo)
- CreateWaitableTimer (todo)
- CreateTimerQueueTimer (todo)
- Big crypto loops (todo)
Human Interaction / Generic [Anti-Sandbox]
- Mouse movement
- Total Physical memory (GlobalMemoryStatusEx)
- Disk size using DeviceIoControl (IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO)
- Disk size using GetDiskFreeSpaceEx (TotalNumberOfBytes)
- Mouse (Single click / Double click) (todo)
- DialogBox (todo)
- Scrolling (todo)
- Execution after reboot (todo)
- Count of processors (Win32/Tinba - Win32/Dyre)
- Sandbox known product IDs (todo)
- Color of background pixel (todo)
- Keyboard layout (Win32/Banload) (todo)
Anti-Virtualization / Full-System Emulation
- Registry key value artifacts
- HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 0\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0 (Identifier) (VBOX)
- HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 0\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0 (Identifier) (QEMU)
- HARDWARE\Description\System (SystemBiosVersion) (VBOX)
- HARDWARE\Description\System (SystemBiosVersion) (QEMU)
- HARDWARE\Description\System (VideoBiosVersion) (VIRTUALBOX)
- HARDWARE\Description\System (SystemBiosDate) (06/23/99)
- HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 0\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0 (Identifier) (VMWARE)
- HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 1\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0 (Identifier) (VMWARE)
- HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 2\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0 (Identifier) (VMWARE)
- Registry Keys artifacts
- "HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\VBOX__"
- "HARDWARE\ACPI\FADT\VBOX__"
- "HARDWARE\ACPI\RSDT\VBOX__"
- "SOFTWARE\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions"
- "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VBoxGuest"
- "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VBoxMouse"
- "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VBoxService"
- "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VBoxSF"
- "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VBoxVideo"
- SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Tools
- SOFTWARE\Wine
- File system artifacts
- "system32\drivers\VBoxMouse.sys"
- "system32\drivers\VBoxGuest.sys"
- "system32\drivers\VBoxSF.sys"
- "system32\drivers\VBoxVideo.sys"
- "system32\vboxdisp.dll"
- "system32\vboxhook.dll"
- "system32\vboxmrxnp.dll"
- "system32\vboxogl.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglarrayspu.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglcrutil.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglerrorspu.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglfeedbackspu.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglpackspu.dll"
- "system32\vboxoglpassthroughspu.dll"
- "system32\vboxservice.exe"
- "system32\vboxtray.exe"
- "system32\VBoxControl.exe"
- "system32\drivers\vmmouse.sys"
- "system32\drivers\vmhgfs.sys"
- Directories artifacts
- "%PROGRAMFILES%\oracle\virtualbox guest additions\"
- "%PROGRAMFILES%\VMWare\"
- MAC Address
- "\x08\x00\x27" (VBOX)
- "\x00\x05\x69" (VMWARE)
- "\x00\x0C\x29" (VMWARE)
- "\x00\x1C\x14" (VMWARE)
- "\x00\x50\x56" (VMWARE)
- Virtual devices
- "\\.\VBoxMiniRdrDN"
- "\\.\VBoxGuest"
- "\\.\pipe\VBoxMiniRdDN"
- "\\.\VBoxTrayIPC"
- "\\.\pipe\VBoxTrayIPC")
- "\\.\HGFS"
- "\\.\vmci"
- Hardware Device information
- SetupAPI SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo (GUID_DEVCLASS_DISKDRIVE)
- QEMU
- VMWare
- VBOX
- VIRTUAL HD
- SetupAPI SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo (GUID_DEVCLASS_DISKDRIVE)
- Adapter name
- VMWare
- Windows Class
- VBoxTrayToolWndClass
- VBoxTrayToolWnd
- Network shares
- VirtualBox Shared Folders
- Processes
- vboxservice.exe (VBOX)
- vboxtray.exe (VBOX)
- vmtoolsd.exe (VMWARE)
- vmwaretray.exe (VMWARE)
- vmwareuser (VMWARE)
- vmsrvc.exe (VirtualPC)
- vmusrvc.exe (VirtualPC)
- prl_cc.exe (Parallels)
- prl_tools.exe (Parallels)
- xenservice.exe (Citrix Xen)
- WMI
- SELECT * FROM Win32_Bios (SerialNumber) (VMWARE)
- SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity (DeviceId) (VBOX)
- SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration (MACAddress) (VBOX)
- SELECT * FROM Win32_NTEventlogFile (VBOX)
- SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor (NumberOfCores) (GENERIC)
- SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk (Size) (GENERIC)
- DLL Exports and Loaded DLLs
- kernel32.dll!wine_get_unix_file_nameWine (Wine)
- sbiedll.dll (Sandboxie)
- dbghelp.dll (MS debugging support routines)
- api_log.dll (iDefense Labs)
- dir_watch.dll (iDefense Labs)
- pstorec.dll (SunBelt Sandbox)
- vmcheck.dll (Virtual PC)
- wpespy.dll (WPE Pro)
Anti-Analysis
- Processes
- OllyDBG / ImmunityDebugger / WinDbg / IDA Pro
- SysInternals Suite Tools (Process Explorer / Process Monitor / Regmon / Filemon, TCPView, Autoruns)
- Wireshark / Dumpcap
- ProcessHacker / SysAnalyzer / HookExplorer / SysInspector
- ImportREC / PETools / LordPE
- JoeBox Sandbox
Code/DLL Injections techniques
- CreateRemoteThread
- SetWindowsHooksEx
- NtCreateThreadEx
- RtlCreateUserThread
- APC (QueueUserAPC / NtQueueApcThread)
- RunPE (GetThreadContext / SetThreadContext)
Contributors
References
- An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide By Josh Jackson.
- Anti-Unpacker Tricks By Peter Ferrie.
- The Art Of Unpacking By Mark Vincent Yason.
- Walied Assar's blog http://waleedassar.blogspot.de/
- Pafish tool: https://github.com/a0rtega/pafish
Tags
Al-Khaser
Analysis
Debugging
IDS
Malware
Malware Analysis
Malware Techniques
Sandbox
WinDbg
Windows