Trojan-Spy.Win32.Ardamax.ocx Insecure Permissions

`Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com (c) 2021  
Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/78a39875a0adb110cf3c7de3a0d1384c.txt  
Contact: [email protected]  
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Threat: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Ardamax.ocx  
Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions  
Description: The malware creates an dir named "MUWOCI" or "28463" with insecure permissions under Windows\SysWOW64 granting full (F) permissions to the Everyone user group. Standard users can rename the executable dropped by the malware to disable it or replace it with their own executable. Then wait for a privileged user to logon to the infected machine to potentially escalate privileges.  
Type: PE32  
MD5: 78a39875a0adb110cf3c7de3a0d1384c   
Vuln ID: MVID-2021-0362  
Disclosure: 10/15/2021  
  
Exploit/PoC:  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MUWOCI>cacls HNI.001  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MUWOCI\HNI.001 Everyone:(ID)F  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MUWOCI>cd ..  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>cacls MUWOCI  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MUWOCI Everyone:F  
Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)F  
  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>dir MUWOCI  
Volume in drive C has no label.  
  
Directory of C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MUWOCI  
  
10/05/2021 10:11 PM 62,464 HNI.001  
1 File(s) 62,464 bytes  
  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>cacls 28463  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\28463 Everyone:F  
Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)F  
  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>dir 28463  
Volume in drive C has no label.  
  
Directory of C:\Windows\SysWOW64\28463  
  
10/05/2021 10:17 PM 402,944 AKV.exe  
10/05/2021 10:17 PM 482 DQOC.001  
10/05/2021 10:17 PM 7,680 DQOC.006  
10/05/2021 10:17 PM 5,632 DQOC.007  
10/05/2021 10:17 PM 483,840 DQOC.exe  
5 File(s) 900,578 bytes  
  
  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>cacls 28463  
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\28463 Everyone:F  
Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)F  
  
  
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