MSDT_CVE-2022-30190

This Repository Talks about the Follina MSDT from Defender Perspective

Index

• About
• Timeline
• Understanding the Exploit
• List of IOCs
• Detection Strategy
• Testing and Researching
• Mitigation Plans
• References

About

The bug is a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) remote code execution vulnerability reported by crazyman of the Shadow Chaser Group. Microsoft is now tracking it as CVE-2022-30190. The flaw impacts all Windows versions still receiving security updates (Windows 7+ and Server 2008+).

As security researcher nao_sec found, it is used by threat actors to execute malicious PowerShell commands via MSDT in what Redmond describes as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) attacks when opening or previewing Word documents.

"An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application," Microsoft explains.

Timeline

• April 12th 2022 — First report to Microsoft MSRC, by leader of Shadowchasing1, an APT hunting group. This document is an in the wild, real world exploit targeting Russia, themed as a Russian job interview.
• April 21st 2022 — Microsoft MSRC closed the ticket saying not a security related issue (for the record, msdt executing with macros disabled is an issue)
• May ?? 2022 — Microsoft may have tried to fix this or accidentally fixed it in Office 365 Insider channel, without documenting a CVE or writing it down anywhere. The other products remain vulnerable.
• May 27th 2022 — Security vendor Nao tweet a document uploaded from Belarus, which is also an in the wild attack.
• May 27th 2022 — Reported back to MSRC.
• May 29th 2022 — Andy Ful identified this was a zero day publicly as it still works against Office 365 Semi Annual channel, and ‘on prem’ Office versions and EDR products are failing to detect.

Understanding-the-Exploit

• You can refer the Huntress Blog HERE to understand the full deatils of working principle of this explit.
• Watch this VIDEO for understanding the exploit and it's remediation.

List-of-IOCs

• Main object - 05-2022-0438.doc
  • sha256 4a24048f81afbe9fb62e7a6a49adbd1faf41f266b5f9feecdceb567aec096784
  • sha1 06727ffda60359236a8029e0b3e8a0fd11c23313
  • md5 52945af1def85b171870b31fa4782e52
• Dropped executable file
  • sha256 C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\SDIAG_ecb8c0a2-7a1e-4b6c-8ae0-2245f03bcc15\DiagPackage.dll 3218488d62cb0858101d2ec63ec73a032bc9787f5f87cb46abbea4477c97b16f
  • sha256 C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\SDIAG_ecb8c0a2-7a1e-4b6c-8ae0-2245f03bcc15\en-US\DiagPackage.dll.mui c6d837ec0850e22c83b400fcded1791a2f4f99f0c56d6fc7d93e92a8b72c098d
  • sha256 C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\r5qxr4ie.dll aa967ae9f6d80bdbd0f315defa17aaee0e756e7e2ad0e5261d8254bc0af1cc02
  • sha256 C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\t52wyhbe.dll daf716cbe8810085251e6ef1e39869a9e61d929fac12ea5684c3b2caf993666b
  • sha256 C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\qtwoghs1.dll f5361b6c9db8ac25433ae21f9a7b6490cc372ce2b1f802e2b06d5b904ce97109
• DNS requests
  • domain www[.]xmlformats[.]com
• Connections
  • ip 141.105.65.149
  • ip 20.42.65.85
  • ip 13.107.42.16
• HTTP/HTTPS requests
  • url hxxps://www[.]xmlformats[.]com/office/word/2022/wordprocessingDrawing/
  • url hxxps://www[.]xmlformats[.]com/office/word/2022/
  • url hxxps://www[.]xmlformats[.]com/office/word/2022/wordprocessingDrawing/RDF842l[.]html

Detection-Strategy

• For doing Threat Hunt you can find the Sigma Rule HERE

• Below are the Detection Rules which can be further tuned. Kudos to Bala Ganesh. Full article can be found HERE

• MS Defender:

DeviceProcessEvents | where ((ProcessCommandLine contains "WINWORD.EXE") and (ProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe") and (ProcessCommandLine contains "sdiagnhost.exe" or ProcessCommandLine contains "csc.exe" or ProcessCommandLine contains "PCWDiagnostic" or ProcessCommandLine contains "IT_ReBrowserForFile" or ProcessCommandLine contains "IT_BrowserForFile" or ProcessCommandLine contains "conhost.exe"))

• Splunk:

[Doc Malware]
alert.severity = 2
description = Detection (Rule ID: 74566a6a66aaasdq2ed)
cron_schedule = 0 * * * *
disabled = 1
is_scheduled = 1
is_visible = 1
dispatch.earliest_time = -60m@m
dispatch.latest_time = now
search = (source="WinEventLog:*" AND (CommandLine="*WINWORD.EXE*") AND (CommandLine="*msdt.exe*") AND (CommandLine="*sdiagnhost.exe*" OR CommandLine="*csc.exe*" OR CommandLine="*PCWDiagnostic*" OR CommandLine="*IT_ReBrowserForFile*" OR CommandLine="*IT_BrowserForFile*" OR CommandLine="*conhost.exe*"))
alert.suppress = 0
alert.track = 1

• Qradar:

SELECT UTF8(payload) from events where LOGSOURCETYPENAME(devicetype)='Microsoft Windows Security Event Log' and ("Process CommandLine" ilike '%WINWORD.EXE%') and ("Process CommandLine" ilike '%msdt.exe%') and ("Process CommandLine" ilike '%sdiagnhost.exe%' or "Process CommandLine" ilike '%csc.exe%' or "Process CommandLine" ilike '%PCWDiagnostic%' or "Process CommandLine" ilike '%IT_ReBrowserForFile%' or "Process CommandLine" ilike '%IT_BrowserForFile%' or "Process CommandLine" ilike '%conhost.exe%')

• GrayLog

(CommandLine.keyword:*WINWORD.EXE* AND CommandLine.keyword:*msdt.exe* AND CommandLine.keyword:(*sdiagnhost.exe* *csc.exe* *PCWDiagnostic* *IT_ReBrowserForFile* *IT_BrowserForFile* *conhost.exe*))
Sumologic
(_sourceCategory=*windows* AND (CommandLine = "*WINWORD.EXE*") AND (CommandLine = "*msdt.exe*") AND (CommandLine = "*sdiagnhost.exe*" OR CommandLine = "*csc.exe*" OR CommandLine = "*PCWDiagnostic*" OR CommandLine = "*IT_ReBrowserForFile*" OR CommandLine = "*IT_BrowserForFile*" OR CommandLine = "*conhost.exe*"))

• Elastic KQL:

(process.command_line:*WINWORD.EXE* AND process.command_line:*msdt.exe* AND process.command_line:(*sdiagnhost.exe* OR *csc.exe* OR *PCWDiagnostic* OR *IT_ReBrowserForFile* OR *IT_BrowserForFile* OR *conhost.exe*))

Below query described by Brent Murphy HERE can also be applied

process where event.type in ("start" , "process_created") and (process.pe.original_file_name : "msdt.exe" or process.name : "msdt.exe") and (process.parent.pe.original_file_name : ("winword.exe", "excel.exe", "outlook.exe", "powerpnt.exe") or process.parent.name : ("winword.exe", "excel.exe", "outlook.exe", "powerpnt.exe"))

• You can hunt for this attack using XQL Search in Cortex XDR: Find more HERE

# office processes spawning msdt.exe

config case_sensitive = false timeframe = 30d
| dataset = xdr_data
| filter event_type = ENUM.PROCESS and action_process_image_command_line contains "msdt.exe" and actor_process_image_name in ("winword.exe", "powerpnt.exe", "excel.exe", "msaccess.exe","visio.exe","onenote.exe","powershell.exe")
| fields agent_hostname , action_process_image_command_line , action_process_image_path , actor_process_command_line , actor_process_image_path , causality_actor_process_image_path

# msdt.exe execution with suspicious argument