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 #32888  by R136a1
 Thu May 02, 2019 7:13 pm
This is a publicly advertized trojan which can be found here:
warzone[.]io

They also operate a dynamic DNS service located here:
warzonedns[.]com

The usual Twitter string analysts dubbed this AVE_MARIA Stealer while it's a bit more than this. And from Twitter directly to a blog:
https://blog.yoroi.company/research/the ... a-malware/ :-(

The feature list seems to be accurate, although the description of "Privilege Escalation" is crazy for simple UAC bypass. Privilege elevation would be more accurate.

The UAC bypass module is located in the resource "WM_DSP" which is a bit sloppy coded. For example:
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  GetModuleFileNameW(0, &Filename, 0x208u);
  v0 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  RtlGetCurrentPeb = GetProcAddress(v0, "RtlGetCurrentPeb");
  v1 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  RtlEnterCriticalSection = (int (__stdcall *)(_DWORD))GetProcAddress(v1, "RtlEnterCriticalSection");
  v2 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  RtlLeaveCriticalSection = (int (__stdcall *)(_DWORD))GetProcAddress(v2, "RtlLeaveCriticalSection");
  v3 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  RtlInitUnicodeString = (int (__stdcall *)(_DWORD, _DWORD))GetProcAddress(v3, "RtlInitUnicodeString");
  v4 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  RtlFillMemory = (int (__stdcall *)(_DWORD, _DWORD, _DWORD))GetProcAddress(v4, "RtlFillMemory");
  v5 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  GetProcAddress(v5, "NtAllocateVirtualMemory");
  v6 = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll");
  LdrEnumerateLoadedModules = (int (__stdcall *)(_DWORD, _DWORD, _DWORD))GetProcAddress(v6, "LdrEnumerateLoadedModules");
You can see that LoadLibrary is called way too many times. Also, NtAllocateVirtualMemory is resolved but never used.

Furthermore, it gives out a message box when the process has already admin privileges:
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MessageBoxW(0, L"Hey I'm Admin", 0, 0);
:party:

And error handling seems to be an alien concept for the author. Example:
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v0 = FindResourceW(0, (LPCWSTR)0x65, L"WM_DISP");
v1 = LoadResource(0, v0);
nNumberOfBytesToWrite = SizeofResource(0, v0);
lpBuffer = LockResource(v1);
RtlFillMemory(&FileName, 520, 0);
GetTempPathW(0x208u, &FileName);
lstrcatW(&FileName, L"dismcore.dll");
v2 = CreateFileW(&FileName, GENERIC_ALL, 1u, 0, 2u, 0x84u, 0);
WriteFile(v2, lpBuffer, nNumberOfBytesToWrite, &NumberOfBytesWritten, 0);
CloseHandle(v2);
RtlFillMemory(&Buffer, 520, 0);
GetTempPathW(0x208u, &Buffer);
lstrcatW(&Buffer, L"ellocnak.xml");
v3 = CreateFileW(&Buffer, 0x10000000u, 1u, 0, 2u, 0x84u, 0);
...
:x

As you can see, it uses Leo Davidson derivative (see point 23 of UACME description). An explanation can be found here: viewtopic.php?t=3643&start=110 (-> "Exploiting g_lpAutoApproveEXEList").

Also weird, trojan code contains a leftover test function which is never used:
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  get_kernel32_base();
  result = resolve_api_function(v0);
  if ( result )
  {
    result = result(leftover_func, &v5, 28);
    if ( v6 )
    {
      resolve_iat_functions();
      MessageBoxA(0, "Bla2", "Bla2", 0);
      v4 = v2;
      v8 = 0;
      v3 = (LPCWSTR *)copy_str_to_mem(L"C:\\Users\\louis\\Documents\\workspace\\MortyCrypter\\MsgBox.exe");
      wrapper_CreateProcessW((HANDLE *)&v7, v3, (LPWSTR *)&v8, v4);
      wrapper_VirtualFree(lpAddress);
      lpAddress = 0;
      result = wrapper_VirtualFree(0);
    }
  }
  return result;
All in all, it's a classic trojan coded for monetisation purposes. :bored:

Sample attached.

More samples:
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4f2940a006495ee3d570aaa7271d205b1c2a4cb9cb843d970948c5a2084c3ad6
50840fbc820980940c82d5e35cf8d92ab97776dcee48db94266f10b97c0b2a1c
844548eeb620b760ff16c8802f395df5807492d4154ac1a6645035183e3b26eb
8655b2dab11c522233c71631ab0215f2b88e117787a473c4ea06ca62cb16b675
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cc50f1c93289bb729b1a68205f4e142a0a8dd9d30796fef6e26ae6965babfa12
cf4abc0e521f831554ee57506b8ab370faafe2d776f64bae1bc8c67e79b433ee
e2a0f2cae40e4f08339523f7f0d117e769e52aa4346cce35ee913ddd2d348b29
f49af39077e893f6f893e1b50715f2affe5c34d493e261c73eff0d1986abf484
f4ca6f9fdcda5154b4457ed513e12afbc9aba71282ab082eea6332e7a3b9bcd4
fd2536014cf56d746f8b9dd8e3dd8116eddcbb87074170c1a8b33a48dc27a472
...
Attachments
PW: infected
(47.63 KiB) Downloaded 44 times
 #32889  by EP_X0FF
 Fri May 03, 2019 7:24 am
They share this pile of garbage code with Ransomware Ave Maria -> viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5451 :clown:
 #32958  by patriq
 Tue May 28, 2019 5:01 pm
warzone.png
warzone.png (38.14 KiB) Viewed 370 times
press F..

:P

no idea what the password is, the other archives were too large to post here.
Attachments
(2.71 MiB) Downloaded 18 times
 #32968  by Xylitol
 Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:09 pm
patriq wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 5:01 pm no idea what the password
no needs, customers are sharing with everyone already (:

fews examples (rar archives, no password):
1347b7b6df132886b310072c2920a8ca0916cb2a22f06639f39d0c301f1bffdb - 1558641511831393750_WARZONE_RAT.rar
2c4822ecc9074acadaed523b9fee38f490f8093442a7cba9f3c24f075acd8c23 - WARZONE RAT 1.89.zip
8b15ff45596a6b52f932a4bef54ad02651d454c4c67a273e6ab371058b9a7638 - WARZONE RAT.zip

builders:
d367102ac3da828a0647b95661d3eb62aad935044280ea6de22ee7961497f389 - WARZONE RAT 2.01.exe
3f424bb59a1e816c8c300c530f033085d3972e7f0131c132a85c30db6207c3ff - WARZONE RAT 1.90.exe
ecc82335f961228aa8914edd6961fa3dc1c2f0d3f8f7b9f3250199a1f7a786cc - WARZONE RAT 1.87.exe
7772e657c801d5da773a600ab13af0da9a7e14e56918e2e094ce011c9e55d261 - WARZONE RAT 1.89.exe
8c76a3933d90aaf772742163f52cdf6f78d4b9c5823e70f5c584ef913faca708 - WARZONE RAT 1.31.exe
9b95a8f30dead9ecabbfc3ec8257319fc03bfd0d1201fc7232a71e6dd2a2f9f9 - WARZONERAT.exe

crypter:
1b12072f195d8041573b0a0430335aba05b649bfa65d7f11bb22800246c41e47 - WARZONE DLL Crypter 1.1.exe
fa933812b7c19ca5937261c47bd2336cf0e988cbb88457d43e3f2da92e53c74e - WARZONE DLL Crypter 1.30.exe
06f4ff2c8e9a6a11d2b5f3edee8e311caa1606c61faa664664e90cdaf4acfac9 - WARZONE DLL Crypter 1.31.exe
7d00ce7afa34c6917e468a17cb9b78dab27e6db2dac805c516db37295a58e6f5 - WARZONE DLL Crypter 1.32.exe
1fa1095cc9210de2a405a30afe74920f9a0978e823ed2604fe9ff1371f4ea0cb - Warzone DLL Crypter 1.33.exe

If you search on VT for specific files like "CRATClient.bin" or builders signature, you get more (although i haven't looked at thoses files, that just a 5 mins search)