Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Quick Malware Analysis: 2023-07-11 Loader-based Formbook Infection

Thanks to Brad Duncan for sharing this pcap!
https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2023/07/11/index.html

We did a quick analysis of this pcap on the NEW Security Onion 2.4. If you'd like to follow along, you can install Security Onion 2.4 in a VM and import the pcap as shown here:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.4/first-time-users.html

The screenshots at the bottom of this post show some of the interesting NIDS alerts, metadata logs, and session transcripts.

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More Samples

Find all of our Quick Malware posts at:
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Screenshots

Overview Dashboard:


NIDS alerts:


Drilling into the "ET USER_AGENTS Microsoft Office Existence Discovery User-Agent" alert at the bottom, we choose the Correlate menu option to see all correlated alerts and logs:


Pivot to PCAP:


Switch to ASCII transcript:


Going back to Alerts and correlating based on the "ET POLICY Possible HTA Application Download" alert we see:


Pivot to transcript:


Going back to Alerts and correlating based on the "ET POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download HTTP" alert we see:


Pivot to transcript:


Example transcript for "ET MALWARE FormBook CnC Checkin (POST) M2" alerts:


Example transcript for "ET MALWARE FormBook CnC Checking (GET)" alerts:


Metadata overview:


HTTP GET and POST requests:


DNS lookups:


Interesting file transfers:


SSL/TLS logs:


Connection overview:



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