It’s been a while since I updated HexDive, so I took some time today to fix a few things + add new keywords.

So, what’s new?

Mainly lots of new keyword sets. Some are just a tip of an iceberg and I will be extending these as I go through a malware collection in the future, but even at this stage these should certainly help in picking up some new interesting stuff, including but not limited to:

• new banking-related strings
• more information stealing strings (PStore, Firefox, FTP programs, Certificates, etc.)
• keystrokes (thx Corey)
• anti-sandbox tricks (partially based on an excellent summary post from Joe Security LLC and interesting new technique described by F-Secure)
• swearwords
• lots of new registry keys related to settings, games, P2P, and lots of other applications
• some default passwords occasionally used by worms
• generic malware strings (lots of them, I still need to classify them, but at least they are already in the set)

You can download current version of HexDive here. If your .exe download is blocked, you can try a zip file.

p.s.

I still don’t pay too much attention to a Linux version – this is lower priority than a different feature I am currently working on (stay tuned).

Bonus update:

hdive ran over two gauss samples

• 08D7DDB11E16B86544E0C3E677A60E10_100-dskapi.ocx
• 5604A86CE596A239DD5B232AE32E02C6_smdk.ocx

Various classes of interesting strings are highlighted:

08D7DDB11E16B86544E0C3E677A60E10_100-dskapi.ocx

CorExitProcess
mscoree.dll
null
null
support
open
support
support
kernel32.dll
local
local
local
default
local
dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
GetLastActivePopup
GetActiveWindow
MessageBoxA
USER32.DLL
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
urlmon.dll
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
inflate
deflate
abcd
ABCD
abcd
SeRestorePrivilege
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
SeRestorePrivilege
LoadLibraryW
kernel32.dll
GetCommandLineW
Sleep
kernel32.dll
FreeLibrary
kernel32.dll
VirtualFree
kernel32.dll
ExitThread
kernel32.dll
DeleteFileA
kernel32.dll
MoveFileExA
kernel32.dll
ntdll.dll
SeRestorePrivilege
SeBackupPrivilege
RegCreateKeyExW
RegSaveKeyW
RegRestoreKeyW
RegOpenKeyExW
RegFlushKey
RegCloseKey
RegSetValueExW
RegDeleteValueW
RegQueryValueExW
ObtainUserAgentString
HttpSendRequestW
InternetQueryOptionW
InternetSetOptionW
InternetCloseHandle
InternetQueryDataAvailable
HttpAddRequestHeadersW
InternetReadFile
HttpQueryInfoW
InternetOpenW
InternetConnectW
HttpOpenRequestW
OpenProcessToken
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser
AdjustTokenPrivileges
LookupPrivilegeValueW
RegDeleteKeyW
SetEntriesInAclW
FreeSid
MoveFileExW
CloseHandle
DeleteFileW
CreateMutexW
Sleep
GetCurrentProcessId
VirtualAlloc
LoadLibraryW
CreateThread
GetModuleFileNameW
VirtualFree
GetCurrentProcess
GetModuleHandleA
OpenProcess
GetLastError
GetFileSize
ReadFile
CreateFileW
GetPrivateProfileStringW
FreeLibrary
GetProcAddress
GetSystemTime
DuplicateHandle
MultiByteToWideChar
LoadResource
SizeofResource
LockResource
GetVersionExW
CreateToolhelp32Snapshot
GetFileAttributesW
GetModuleHandleW
SetFileTime
WriteFile
Process32FirstW
ReadProcessMemory
Process32NextW
WriteProcessMemory
VirtualAllocEx
CreateRemoteThread
VirtualFreeEx
LocalFree
LocalAlloc
LoadLibraryA
TerminateProcess
SetUnhandledExceptionFilter
IsDebuggerPresent
GetCurrentThreadId
GetCommandLineA
HeapFree
GetVersionExA
HeapAlloc
ExitProcess
GetFileType
GetStartupInfoA
DeleteCriticalSection
GetModuleFileNameA
FreeEnvironmentStringsA
GetEnvironmentStrings
FreeEnvironmentStringsW
WideCharToMultiByte
GetEnvironmentStringsW
HeapDestroy
HeapCreate
QueryPerformanceCounter
GetTickCount
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime
GetCPInfo
GetACP
LeaveCriticalSection
EnterCriticalSection
InitializeCriticalSection
SetFilePointer
GetStringTypeA
GetStringTypeW
GetLocaleInfoA
WriteConsoleA
WriteConsoleW
CreateFileA
FlushFileBuffers
GetSystemMetrics

5604A86CE596A239DD5B232AE32E02C6_smdk.ocx

CorExitProcess
mscoree.dll
null
null
support
open
support
support
local
local
local
default
local
kernel32.dll
dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
england
chinese
chinese
chinese
chinese
GetProcessWindowStation
GetLastActivePopup
GetActiveWindow
MessageBoxA
USER32.DLL
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
deflate
Jean-loup Gailly
Mark Adler
true
RegOpenKeyW
RegCloseKey
RegQueryValueExW
RegOpenKeyExW
TerminateThread
CreateThread
Process32NextW
CreateToolhelp32Snapshot
GetLastError
Process32FirstW
DuplicateHandle
GetCurrentProcess
SetEvent
GetLogicalDriveStringsW
GetSystemTime
DeviceIoControl
CreateFileW
GetDriveTypeW
FindClose
FindFirstFileW
FindNextFileW
LocalAlloc
GetProcAddress
FreeLibrary
LoadLibraryA
TerminateProcess
SetUnhandledExceptionFilter
IsDebuggerPresent
GetCurrentThreadId
GetCommandLineA
HeapFree
GetVersionExA
HeapAlloc
GetModuleHandleA
Sleep
ExitProcess
GetFileType
GetStartupInfoA
DeleteCriticalSection
GetModuleFileNameA
FreeEnvironmentStringsA
GetEnvironmentStrings
FreeEnvironmentStringsW
WideCharToMultiByte
GetEnvironmentStringsW
HeapDestroy
HeapCreate
VirtualFree
QueryPerformanceCounter
GetTickCount
GetCurrentProcessId
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime
GetCPInfo
GetACP
LeaveCriticalSection
EnterCriticalSection
VirtualAlloc
WriteFile
InitializeCriticalSection
MultiByteToWideChar
GetStringTypeA
GetStringTypeW
GetLocaleInfoA
SetFilePointer
WriteConsoleA
WriteConsoleW
CreateFileA
FlushFileBuffers
GetFileSize
GetFileAttributesW

New version comes with lots of fixes and updates.

New stuff includes:

• lots of new malware-specific APIs (I manually walked through thousands of them so over 1600+ APIs commonly used by malware is now being picked up)
• banking URLs (all stuff from web injects from Zeus/SpyEye etc.)
• domain names commonly changed via hosts file (anti-* routine to block security software, etc.)
• minor fixes to existing strings (simple mistakes I spotted)
• large files are now supported; it has been implemented since the beginning, but I have not tested it yet; if you come across issues, please let me know
• extra option to avoid showing copyright banner (same as in SysInternals tools /q or -q)
• better options handling (a’la Linux) so you can now specify -qfa instead of -q -f -a

What’s coming: Currently toying around with porting the code to yasm so elf32 version precompiled for Linux Ubuntu may appear soon 🙂

You can download current version of HexDive here.

If your .exe download is blocked, you can try a zip file.

Note:

If you find HexDive is missing strings, please let me know and I will add them. At some stage I plan to release all of the strings for free, but before I do it I want to ensure they are at least classified to some extent. Yes, I will do the dirty job 🙂 just let me know what is missing. If you have some features you would like to see, please let me know as well. And if you find any bugs, please also let me know.

Thanks for trying and don’t forget to check our other tools!