{"id":22980,"date":"2013-03-21T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=22980"},"modified":"2024-02-20T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T03:08:31","slug":"vskimmer-botnet-targets-credit-card-payment-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/vskimmer-botnet-targets-credit-card-payment-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"VSkimmer Botnet Targets Credit Card Payment Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This blog has been updated with McAfee&#8217;s NSP detection. See end of blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While monitoring a Russian underground forum recently, we came across a discussion about a Trojan for sale that can steal credit card information from machines running Windows for financial transactions and credit card payments. The malware, vSkimmer, can detect the card readers, grab all the information from the Windows machines attached to these readers, and send that data to a control server. The author of the thread also discusses other capabilities of this malware, which appears to be a successor of Dexter, but with additional functions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23139\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-13.png\" alt=\"Chintan1\" width=\"484\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-13.png 756w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-13-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23156\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/34.png\" alt=\"chintan2\" width=\"522\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/34.png 746w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/34-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We already know about botnets such as Zeus and SpyEye, which perform financial fraud using extremely sophisticated techniques including \u00a0intercepting the victims&#8217; banking transactions. VSkimmer\u00a0 is another example of how financial fraud is actively evolving and how financial Trojans are developed and passed around in the underground community. This botnet is particularly interesting because it directly targets card-payment terminals running Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Our Automated Botnet Replication Framework first saw this Trojan on January 18. We&#8217;ve analyzed \u00a0samples of this malware and figured out how it steals the credit card information and its additional control functionalities. While performing the API tracing , we found it uses fairly standard antidebugging techniques:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22995\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-21.png\" alt=\"chintan3\" width=\"515\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-21.png 644w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-21-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The malware collects the following information from the infected machine and sends it to the control server:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Machine GUID from the Registry<\/li>\n<li>Locale info<\/li>\n<li>Username<\/li>\n<li>Hostname<\/li>\n<li>OS version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22996\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-22.png\" alt=\"chintan4\" width=\"562\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-22.png 562w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-22-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This malware uses a standard installation mechanism and copies itself as svchost.exe into %APPDATA% , modifies the registry key to add itself under the authorized list of apps, and runs ShellExecute to launch the process. One function of vSkimmer if the Internet is not available is to wait for a USB device with the volume name KARTOXA007\u00a0 to be connected to the infected machine and to copy all the logs with the file name dumz.log and the card info collected from the victim to the USB drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22997\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22.png\" alt=\"chintan5\" width=\"479\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22.png 532w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/22-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I checked by disconnecting from the Internet: The malware enumerated all the drives and created the file dumz.log in the drive with the preceding name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23160\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/35.png\" alt=\"chintan6\" width=\"404\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/35.png 404w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/35-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Extracting credit card information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>VSkimmer maintains the whitelisted process, which it skips while enumerating the running processes on the infected machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22998\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/23.png\" alt=\"chintan7\" width=\"383\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/23.png 383w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/23-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once vSkimmer finds any running process not in the whitelist, it runs OpenProcess and ReadProcessMemory to read the memory pages of the process and invokes the pattern-matching algorithm to match the regular expression &#8220;?[3-9]{1}[0-9]{12,19}[D=\\\\u0061][0-9]{10,30}\\\\??&#8221;)&#8221; and extract the card info read by the payment devices. This is done recursively for every process running in the infected machine and not on the whitelist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22999\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/24.png\" alt=\"chintan8\" width=\"481\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/24.png 481w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/24-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>VSkimmer control<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before communicating with the control server, the malware B64-encodes all the machine information collected and appends it to the URI. The encoded string follow this format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>machine guid|build_id|bot_version|Windows_version|Host_name|User_Name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23057\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/28.png\" alt=\"chintan9\" width=\"541\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/28.png 541w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/28-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, vSkimmer creates the HTTP request and connects to the control server:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23058\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/29.png\" alt=\"chintan10\" width=\"489\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/29.png 489w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/29-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While this malware ran, we saw the following response. Note that the commands are within the &lt;cmd&gt; &lt;\/cmd&gt; tag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/response.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23059\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/response.png\" alt=\"chintan11\" width=\"673\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/response.png 673w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/response-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once vSkimmer receives a response from the server, it executes the following routine to parse the command:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23051\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/26.png\" alt=\"chintan12\" width=\"521\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/26.png 521w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/26-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because the response from the server during execution was &lt;cmd&gt;null&lt;\/cmd&gt;, the malware extracts the 3-byte command and tries to match it with the other commands implemented by vSkimmer. First it checks if the command from the server is &#8220;dlx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23060\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/31.png\" alt=\"chintan13\" width=\"589\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/31.png 589w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/31-300x52.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If not, then vSkimmer checks for the &#8220;upd&#8221; command. These commands implement the HTTP download and execute (&#8220;dlx&#8221;) and update of the bot (&#8220;upd&#8221;), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As we saw earlier in this post, vSkimmer can also grab the Track 2 data stored on the magnetic strip of the credit cards. This track stores all the card information including the card number. (You can read more about the Track 2 data format on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetic_stripe_card\">Wikipedia.<\/a> The chief information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary Account Number: the number printed on the front of the card<\/li>\n<li>Expiration Date<\/li>\n<li>Service Code: the three-digit number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>VSkimmer bot control panel<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the control panel of the command server:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23079\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/32.png\" alt=\"chintan14\" width=\"621\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/32.png 776w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/32-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23138\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/33.png\" alt=\"chintan15\" width=\"739\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/33.png 739w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/33-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McAfee NSP detection:<\/p>\n<p>Attack ID: 0x4880a600<br \/>\nAttack Name: BOT: VSkimmer Traffic Detected<br \/>\nSigset: Intrushield Network Security Signature Set 7.5.34.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2 This blog has been updated with McAfee&#8217;s NSP detection. 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