Author: Erik Pistelli

Obfuscated Batch Scripts in OneNote Document

This malicious OneNote document contains two obfuscated batch scripts and we’ll be using our commercial Simple Batch Emulator package to understand what they do.

SHA256: 46149F56028829246628FFAFC58DF81A4B0FF1C87ED6466492E25AD2F23C0A13

Continue reading “Obfuscated Batch Scripts in OneNote Document”

Extreme PowerShell Obfuscation

We recently stumbled upon an old article by Daisuke Mutaguchi explaining an extreme technique for PowerShell obfuscation. The article is in Japanese, so you may have to use Google translate.

Here’s the final example provided by the author of the article:

${;}=+$();${=}=${;};${+}=++${;};${@}=++${;};${.}=++${;};${[}=++${;};
${]}=++${;};${(}=++${;};${)}=++${;};${&}=++${;};${|}=++${;};
${"}="["+"$(@{})"[${)}]+"$(@{})"["${+}${|}"]+"$(@{})"["${@}${=}"]+"$?"[${+}]+"]";
${;}="".("$(@{})"["${+}${[}"]+"$(@{})"["${+}${(}"]+"$(@{})"[${=}]+"$(@{})"[${[}]+"$?"[${+}]+"$(@{})"[${.}]);
${;}="$(@{})"["${+}${[}"]+"$(@{})"[${[}]+"${;}"["${@}${)}"];
"${"}${.}${[}+${"}${)}${@}+${"}${+}${=}${+}+${"}${+}${=}${&}+${"}${+}${=}${&}+${"}${+}${+}${+}+${"}${[}${[}+${"}${.}${@}+${"}${+}${+}${|}+${"}${+}${+}${+}+${"}${+}${+}${[}+${"}${+}${=}${&}+${"}${+}${=}${=}+${"}${.}${.}+${"}${.}${[}|${;}"|&${;};

Yes, this is valid PowerShell.

Although there are limits to static deobfuscation, we decided to see what can be done about this with the new release of our PowerShell Beautifier package.

Continue reading “Extreme PowerShell Obfuscation”

CRX Format Package

We have released the “CRX Format” package for all licenses of Cerbero Suite Standard and Advanced. This package provides support for the Chrome extension format.

The package also allows to download Chrome extensions by their public URL.

Chrome extensions can be downloaded either from the main window or from the analysis workspace action.

Continue reading “CRX Format Package”

OneNote Malware With ISO File

We recently stumbled upon this tweet by @Cryptolaemus1 about a malicious OneNote document with an embedded ISO file. Because of our recently released ISO Format package, we thought it would be interesting to analyze this malware sample with Cerbero Suite.

SHA256: 2B0B2A15F00C6EED533C70E89001248A0F2BA6FAE5102E1443D7451A59023516

The unidentified embedded object in the OneNote document is an ISO file.

Continue reading “OneNote Malware With ISO File”