Analyzing an HTA file: Update

Published: 2018-02-05
Last Updated: 2018-02-05 23:10:03 UTC
by Didier Stevens (Version: 1)
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A reader asked what the &H?? strings were in the malware I analyzed in my last diary entry. These are numbers in VBA written in hexadecimal.

For analysis, these numbers can be easily extracted with my re-search.py tool and then converted to binary with hex-to-bin.py.

With regular expression "&H..", we can extract all strings starting with &H followed by 2 characters:

When we use a capture group (), re-search will output the capture group in stead of the full matched string:

And then we can convert the hexadecimal digits to their binary values:

In this HTA document, the malware authors tried to obfuscated strings like MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0 that are used in AV signatures and other detection tools.

 

 

Didier Stevens
Microsoft MVP Consumer Security
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