How Did I Find APT16 New Infa with VirusTotal pDNS and a lil Bit of Luck

Posted: January 25th, 2016 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: APT, IOC | No Comments »

[Quick and short update]

Last couple of weeks, I was reading the The EPS Awakens – Part 2 blog entry from FireEye and found this one IP, 121.127.249.74, was previously used as their C2 server. I used VirusTotal IP information, these few domains appeared:

2015-07-01 frppl.com
2015-07-01 jrjfj.com
2015-07-01 pjntx.com
2015-07-01 vzflx.com
2015-07-01 yeaqm.com

I went and check more information on each domain listed and found new infra (IPs) being used:

frppl.com domain information
2015-12-21 123.60.73.10
2015-07-01 121.127.249.74
 
jrjfj.com domain information
2015-12-21 123.60.73.8
2015-07-01 121.127.249.74
 
pjntx.com domain information
2015-12-28 123.60.73.9
2015-07-01 121.127.249.74
 
yeaqm.com domain information
2015-12-27 123.60.73.6
2015-07-01 121.127.249.74

I quickly check the server HTTP response header and this is what I’ve found that they are all the same:

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: nginx/1.6.2
Date: (current time of check)
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 168
Connection: keep-alive

Okay, we already have 123.60.73.6, 123.60.73.8, 123.60.73.9, 123.60.73.10. Lets just quickly perform the HTTP response header loop for the whole /24 subnet (or maybeee i lil bit more). This is the result:

123.60.73.1
123.60.73.2
123.60.73.3
123.60.73.4
123.60.73.5
123.60.73.6
123.60.73.7
123.60.73.8
123.60.73.9
123.60.73.10
123.60.73.11
123.60.73.12
123.60.73.13
123.60.73.14
123.60.73.15
123.60.73.16
123.60.73.17
123.60.73.18
123.60.73.19
123.60.73.21
123.60.73.22
123.60.73.23
123.60.73.24
123.60.73.25
123.60.73.26
123.60.73.27
123.60.73.28
123.60.73.29
123.60.73.30
123.60.73.31
123.60.73.32
123.60.73.33
123.60.73.34
123.60.73.35
123.60.73.36
123.60.73.37
123.60.73.38
123.60.73.39
123.60.73.40
123.60.73.41
123.60.73.42
123.60.73.43
123.60.73.44
123.60.73.45
123.60.73.46
123.60.73.47
123.60.73.48
123.60.73.49
123.60.73.50
123.60.73.51
123.60.73.52
123.60.73.53
123.60.73.54
123.60.73.55
123.60.73.56
123.60.73.57
123.60.73.58
123.60.73.59
123.60.73.60
123.60.73.61
123.60.74.1
123.60.74.2
123.60.74.3
123.60.74.4
123.60.74.5
123.60.74.6
123.60.74.7
123.60.74.8
123.60.74.9
123.60.74.10
123.60.74.11
123.60.74.12
123.60.74.13
123.60.74.14
123.60.74.15
123.60.74.16
123.60.74.17
123.60.74.18
123.60.74.19
123.60.74.20
123.60.74.21
123.60.74.22
123.60.74.23
123.60.74.24
123.60.74.25
123.60.74.26
123.60.74.27
123.60.74.28
123.60.74.29
123.60.74.30
123.60.74.31
123.60.74.32
123.60.74.33
123.60.74.34
123.60.74.35
123.60.74.36
123.60.74.37
123.60.74.38
123.60.74.39
123.60.74.40
123.60.74.41
123.60.74.42
123.60.74.43
123.60.74.44
123.60.74.45
123.60.74.46
123.60.74.47
123.60.74.48
123.60.74.49
123.60.74.50
123.60.74.51
123.60.74.52
123.60.74.53
123.60.74.54
123.60.74.55
123.60.74.56
123.60.74.57
123.60.74.58
123.60.74.59
123.60.74.60
123.60.74.61

Okay i’m running out of time, my kids are waiting for me outside.

From my quick check on the domain resolved to the IP range 123.60.73.1 – 123.60.73.61 , I can safely assume that those are APT16 new infra. But I not really confident to attribute 123.60.74.1 – 123.60.74.61, but those IPs in that range, and domains revolved to that range, are fishy!

Happy hunting

Yara Rule for Angler EK redirector JS

Posted: August 28th, 2015 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: Angler Exploit Kit | No Comments »

Few friends ping-ed me recently and asked for intel on Angler EK. One of the thing that i can really release publicly at the moment without interfering/conflicting with my employer’s interest, is the yara rule to detect the Angler Exploit Kit redirector. The redirector is actually JS code, injected to innocent page to redirect visitor to Angler Exploit Kit.

Here you go:

rule AnglerEKredirector
{
   meta:
      description = "Angler Exploit Kit Redirector"
      ref = "http://blog.xanda.org/2015/08/28/yara-rule-for-angler-ek-redirector-js/"
      author = "adnan.shukor@gmail.com"
      date = "08-July-2015"
      impact = "5"
      version = "1"
   strings:
      $ekr1 = "<script>var date = new Date(new Date().getTime() + 60*60*24*7*1000);" fullword
      $ekr2 = "document.cookie=\"PHP_SESSION_PHP="
      $ekr3 = "path=/; expires=\"+date.toUTCString();</script>" fullword
      $ekr4 = "<iframe src=" fullword
      $ekr5 = "</iframe></div>" fullword
   condition:
      all of them
}

Yara rule for jjencode

Posted: June 10th, 2015 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | 1 Comment »

I’ve recently worked on yara rule to detect jjencode. So here is my simple rule:

rule jjEncode
{
   meta:
      description = "jjencode detection"
      ref = "https://blog.xanda.org/2015/06/10/yara-rule-for-jjencode/"
      author = "adnan.shukor@gmail.com"
      date = "10-June-2015"
      version = "1"
      impact = 3
      hide = false
   strings:
      $jjencode = /(\$|[\S]+)=~\[\]\;(\$|[\S]+)\=\{[\_]{3}\:[\+]{2}(\$|[\S]+)\,[\$]{4}\:\(\!\[\]\+["]{2}\)[\S]+/ fullword 
   condition:
      $jjencode
}

See you next time 🙂

Fingerprinting (potential) Sinkhole Server

Posted: July 1st, 2014 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: sinkhole | No Comments »

A short update, a note for myself

Last May, while discussing with a friend, we’ve concluded that these 2 header (HTTP header) example indicate that those servers are sinkhole servers:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache 1.0/SinkSoft
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 06:11:29 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 07:26:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)
X-Sinkhole: malware-sinkhole
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html

So we can look for:

Apache 1.0/SinkSoft
X-Sinkhole:

Today, I’ve found “Server: TornadoServer” is another indicator. But i’m not yet 100% sure. Comments are welcome

Installing Compact Language Detection 2 (CLD2) on Ubuntu

Posted: April 2nd, 2014 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: cld, cld2, ubuntu | 5 Comments »

I’ve been using chromium-compact-language-detector before, and when they moved to v2.0, chromium-compact-language-detector has been renamed in to Compact Language Detection 2 (CLD2). I’ve read blog post on the performance review and i’m really impressed. So let give them a try.

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install mercurial gcc-multilib python-dev build-essential

Download CLD2 and the python binding:

cd /tmp/
svn checkout http://cld2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ cld2
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector/

Compile CLD2 and install the lib (for 32bit) :

cd /tmp/cld2/internal/
cat compile_libs.sh | sed 's/\ \-m64\ //g' > compile_me.sh
chmod +x compile_me.sh
./compile_me.sh
sudo cp *.so /usr/lib/

Compile CLD2 and install the lib (for 64bit) :

cd /tmp/cld2/internal/
./compile_libs.sh
sudo cp *.so /usr/lib64/

Compile the python binding:

cd /tmp/chromium-compact-language-detector/
 
python setup.py build
python setup_full.py build
 
sudo python setup.py install
sudo python setup_full.py install

Give the library a test:

python test.py

For documentation:

python -c "import cld2; help(cld2.detect)"

Done! Thanks

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