AgentTesla is a .NET based malware, commonly distributed as part of a malspam campaign. Use of AgentTesla soared in 2020, when it became a favorite of threat actors, which used it to achieve initial foothold on devices.
The sample we analyzed is a heavily obfuscated .NET binary, with a lot of redundant code that is there to confuse analysts. The actual decryption of the second stage is done when activating the set function of the attribute Form1.name, which will decrypt the next payload, load it and invoke it.
The malware checks if it is executing in a sandboxed environment by querying for the loaded module “sbiedll.dll”, which is Sandboxie’s DLL. It will not execute if it is found. Minerva Prevents this AgentTesla variant with our Hostile Environment simulation module, using the malware’s code against it.
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Hashes:
405694b8ab3ca1034423bba6c91dc83831780e9de311b761fcd5d18e84093781
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