Security researchers uncovered a new attack dubbed Kraken that uses injected its payload into the Windows Error Reporting service to evade detection.
The WerFault.exe is a service that shows some error happened with the operating system, Windows features, or applications, victims would assume some error happen, but attackers stealthy execute the malware.
Fileless Malware Attack
Security researchers from Malwarebytes observed a new attack with a zip file containing a malicious document dubbed “Compensation manual.doc” and it has an image tag that points to the website “yourrighttocompensation[.]com”.
Inside the malicious document file, it includes a modified version of CactusTorch(shellcode launcher) VBA module that leverages the DotNetToJscript technique to load a .Net compiled binary into memory and execute it from VBScript.
Once it is opened by a victim it will execute the CactusTorch macro that loads the NET payload straight directly in the windows device’s memory.
The binary is executed on the window’s memory and injects embedded shellcode into the Windows process. As the binary executed on windows memory it won’t leave any traces on the hard disk.
The new maliciously created Windows Error Reporting service will before some anti-analysis checks such as not running in an analysis/sandbox environment or a debugger.
Once it feels safe after anti-analysis it decrypts and loads the final payload int he maliciously ..
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