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Brazilian banking trojan embedded in RTF file
2013.11.24 | By John Dennis | 0 comments

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A few days back, Kaspersky blogged on “Brazilian bankers gone wild: now using malicious Office files”.  They stated:

New trick from cybercriminals of Brazil – a suspicious message arrives to the user with a file attached named “Comprovante_Internet_Banking.rtf”, translated from Portuguese it means “Receipt from Internet Banking”:

An image of the bank receipt is presented in the file and the user is asked to double-click the image.  Once the image is clicked, the user is asked to execute it and it begins to infect by running as a CPL file. Also, the reported MD5: 563707b4edcc0bb0c88365a6702d4ba0 (CPL file) and the detection as Trojan.Win32.ChePro.  I searched the MD5 in nad and VT, ended up with no result.  I also, searched the family name- unable figure out the file, I’m looking for.  I can find the MD5 in http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=563707b4edcc0bb0c88365a6702d4ba0 only.  Again, I perform a quick search in google : “Comprovante_Internet_Banking.rtf”.

I found the VT link and located the file in our malware collection.

I downloaded the sample- it is the RTF file and looks exactly like what Kaspersky blogged.  It is sure that this RTF has an embedded object in it. I need to extract it now.

 

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(snap of the RTF file)

There is a good tool – RTFSCAN from http://reconstructer.org (OFFICEMALSCANNER). Using this tool, I am able to extract the file inside the RTF doc.

 

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(Snapshot of extracting the embedded object in RTF using RTF scan)

I executed the dll file with the extension as cpl and it shows as follow in the snap:

 

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The system gets restarted automatically and gives up the following error after the restart:

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There is a copy of that dll file present in Appdata location. Xvwmmav.mod is not found in the app data. So that is the only  error that was presented.

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