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# New Shameless Commodity Cryptocurrency Stealer (WeSteal) and Commodity RAT (WeControl)

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## Executive Summary

It seems that for every commodity malware [takedown](https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/international-crackdown-rat-spyware-which-takes-total-control-of-victims%E2%80%99-pcs) and [prosecution](https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/rat-trap-international-cybercrime-investigation-shuts-down-insidious), another replaces it to take a turn empowering cybercriminals. Often, commodity malware authors will disingenuously attempt to profess a guise of [legitimacy](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-rat-trapped-luminositylink-falls-foul-vermin-eradication-efforts/) for their malware -- a strategy that often doesn't stand up in [court](https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/stanford-man-sentenced-30-months-computer-intrusion-crimes).

The author of WeSteal, a new commodity cryptocurrency stealer, makes no attempt to disguise the intent for his malware. The seller promises "*the leading way to make money in 2021*" (Figure 1).
![WeSupply sells WeSteal with advertisements such as the one shown here, which reads, "WeSteal is the leading way to make money in 2021!"](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image.gif) Figure 1. WeSteal advertisement.

In this blog, we analyze WeSteal, detail the obfuscation and techniques it uses for persistence and operation, and examine the customers of this malware. We take a look at the actor WeSupply, with an operation and website by the same name, and at the Italian malware coder ComplexCodes, a co-conspirator and actual author of this malware.

Immediately before the publication of this report, we discovered that the actors had both added some new features to WeSteal, and had also complemented it with a new commodity remote access tool (RAT) called "WeControl". We document these new revelations at the end of our report.

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## Origin of WeSteal

Actor "ComplexCodes" started advertising WeSteal on underground forums in mid-February 2021. However, ComplexCodes had been selling a "WeSupply Crypto Stealer" since May 2020. A comparison of samples of the earlier WeSupply Crypto Stealer with WeSteal suggests that WeSteal is likely simply an evolution of the same project.

This Italian malware coder previously authored a "Zodiac Crypto Stealer" and "Spartan Crypter" for obfuscating malware to avoid antivirus detection.

The actor's forum signature indicates an affiliation with a site that sells accounts for services such as Netflix and Disney+ (Figure 2).
![A malware coder involved with WeSteal appears to have an affiliation with a site that sells accounts for services such as Netflix and Disney+, as shown in the screenshot.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-53.jpeg) Figure 2. Underground site that sells accounts.

The intent is once again on display with ComplexCode's Discord-based commodity distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) offering, "Site Killah" (Figure 3).
![The malware author known as Complex Code also runs a Discord-based commodity distributed denial-of-service offering called "Site Killah." The screenshot shows a cartoon hacker at a computer and advertises Site Killah as, "Your #1 Distributed Denial of Service, Service." It offers "unbeatable prices," "fast attacks" and "amazing support."](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-93.png) Figure 3. DDoS service advertisement.

## Intent of WeSteal

When pursuing cases against malware authors, prosecutors typically need to demonstrate the author's intent for the malware. Many authors will hide behind meaningless Terms of Service statements that end users must not use the malware for illegitimate purposes. They will often describe potential "legitimate" uses for their malware -- only to further describe anti-malware evasion properties, silent installation and operation or features such as cryptocurrency mining, password theft or disabling webcam lights.

There is no such pretense by ComplexCodes with WeSteal. There is the name of the malware itself. Then there is the website, "WeSupply," owned by a co-conspirator, proudly stating "WeSupply -- You profit" (Figure 4).
![The WeSupply website advertises itself with the tagline, "WeSupply - You profit," as shown in the screenshot.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-94.png) Figure 4. WeSupply advertisement.

As well as calling the malware WeSteal and advertising the "Crypto Stealer" feature, WeSupply's posts on forums also describe support for zero-day exploits and "Antivirus Bypassing" (Figure 5).
![The screenshot shows an advertisement for WeSteal, which describes the malware as "the world's most advanced Crypto Stealer." It offers features including a Victim tracker panel, Automatic startup, 0-Day Exploit (Smart Screen and Installation), Fully Silent, Advanced Startup Feature with Smart Bypass, and Antivirus Bypassing.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-95.png) Figure 5. WeSteal features.

This is demonstrated with a screenshot claiming no antivirus detection for a sample (Figure 6). WeSteal includes a "Victim tracker panel" that tracks "Infections" -- leaving no doubt about the context.
![The screenshot shows WeSteal's antivirus detection tool.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-54.jpeg) Figure 6. WeSteal antivirus scanning results.

Of course, ComplexCodes profits from the sale of WeSteal by charging €20 for a month, €50 for three months and €125 for one year (Figure 7).
![The screenshot shows an ad for WeSupply on Sellix, an ecommerce store.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-55.jpeg) Figure 7. WeSteal advertisement on Sellix, an ecommerce store.

There isn't any possible angle from which to claim legitimacy for a piece of software designed to steal cryptocurrency transactions.

## Capabilities of WeSteal

In order to "steal" cryptocurrency from a victim, WeSteal uses regular expressions to look for strings matching the patterns of Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet identifiers being copied to the clipboard. When it matches these, it replaces the copied wallet ID in the clipboard with one supplied by the malware. The victim then pastes the substituted wallet ID for a transaction, and the funds are sent instead to the substitute wallet.

#### RAT?

WeSteal is advertised as featuring a "RAT Panel." Not a single RAT feature is advertised nor observed in our analysis. It seems that ComplexCodes is rather ambitiously describing their simple hosted command-and-control (C2) service, elsewhere described as a "victim tracker," as a "RAT Panel."

#### C2 as a Service

As we have observed in some [other commodity malware](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-say-cheese-webmonitor-rat-comes-c2-service-c2aas/), rather than leaving customers to run their own C2, WeSteal operates with a hosted C2 as a service (C2aaS).

WeSteal is configured to use the following URLs for its C2 communications. We have observed two different C2 domains, one of which is also the sales site for the malware.

hxxps://wesupply\[.\]to/t\_api.php  
hxxps://wesupply\[.\]io/t\_api.php

#### Speaking of "Service"

The WeSupply crew seems very invested in the "success" of their customers. In one forum sales thread, a would-be but apparently inexperienced potential criminal asks:

"*how do you use the tool and how does it target someone?*"

To which the helpful malware peddlers respond:

"*Open a ticket, will help you with all your questions.*"

#### Obfuscation

WeSteal is distributed as a Python-based Trojan in a script named "westeal.py". ComplexCodes converted it into an executable form using PyInstaller. The Trojan was specifically written for Python 3.9, as the PyInstaller package included python39.dll as the Python interpreter. The developer also used the open source [PyArmor](https://github.com/dashingsoft/pyarmor) source code obfuscator, which encrypts the contents of the Python script and decrypts the contents before sending to the Python interpreter for execution, as seen here:

from pytransform import pyarmor\_runtime

pyarmor\_runtime()

\_pyarmor(name, \__file_, b'PYARMOR\\x00\\x00\\x03\\t\\x00a\\r\\r\\n\\x06\[snip\]

PyArmor relies on the "\_pytransform.dll" library to decrypt the contents of the Python script and sends them to the "python39.dll" interpreter. The WeSteal samples we analyzed were obfuscated using PyArmor's "obf\_mode" setting configured to 2. This "obf\_mode" setting includes the WeSteal Python bytecode as ciphertext that PyArmor decrypts using AES GCM at runtime.

#### An Interesting Persistence Technique

The "add\_startup" function establishes persistent access to the system, by which WeSteal copies itself to the following location:

C:\\Users\\\<username\>\\AppData\\Local.exe

WeSteal then creates the following batch script in the startup folder that will run each time the user logs in:

c:\\Users\\\<username\>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\appdata.bat

The batch script contains the following command:

start %localappdata%

The command above uses a novel technique to obfuscate the batch file starting the WeSteal executable. The start command attempts to run the environment variable %localappdata%, which on a default Windows system is a path to the folder C:\\Users\\\<username\>\\AppData\\Local. However, in this context, the Local in that environment variable is interpreted as a file rather than a subfolder. The start command will run the WeSteal executable Local.exe (the start command does not require the .exe file extension) in the path C:\\Users\\\<username\>\\AppData\\.

#### The "heist" (or "cuckoo's egg"?)

The get\_clipboard and copy\_to\_clip functions carry out WeSteal's cryptojacking functionality. These functions check for Bitcoin (BTC) and Etherium (ETH) wallets copied to the clipboard and replace them with an actor's wallet, hoping that the user will then paste the actor's wallet instead of the intended one, redirecting a cryptocurrency transaction in the actor's favor. The actor is counting on the victim not noticing the substitution until it is too late and the irrevocable cryptocurrency transaction has been completed.

WeSteal uses regular expressions to identify wallets copied by the user to the clipboard. The regular expressions specifically describing the formats of Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets are seen in the constants identified in the decrypted WeSteal sample (Figure 8).
![The regular expressions specifically describing the formats of Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets are seen in the constants identified in the decrypted WeSteal sample shown here.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-96.png) Figure 8. Constants from a decoded WeSteal sample.

## WeSteal's Customers, Wallets and Their "Hauls"

Also encoded in the samples were the hardcoded customer "handle," and their BTC and ETH wallets. From this, we have some idea of the current customer base and possibly an idea of their success.

We collated a small list of customers. In general, the wallets identified had only a small number of transactions since WeSteal was released, and those were of low value. However, at least one wallet (actor "pepsi") received approximately $800 in a single Ethereum transaction. It is, of course, possible that any of these transactions may be unrelated to the malware.

|------------|--------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Handle     | Etherium Wallet                            | Bitcoin Wallet                             |
| Heroin     | 0xb5F7Bf1B46854f3EDA1201294941Edb13f9661EA | 1AB3XSnioEFKKZcDadmSDX8YRcQzgRnG3c         |
| pepsi      | 0x5f9C7078dFF737BbF872b438151Cd38ECfe0ebee | 1NbyaaQTGPAhj8CuqRSRrXbWCCtyhdyv7T         |
| touourien  | 0x419f92Af57Eeb3f50fbE10298cC4a684aB452011 | bc1qg0gr8286k6kemtd3cwch6guzfp6yn9n3smlqt8 |
| Adribusted | 0x49c8d0359cAf80FfebD8424128A951264f4f6506 | bc1q8pufxrmm8k5n9v4w2auvlaedx9lm23c7sg6mye |
| King       | 0x1FdD9e44048F88B04C6DBba897E05ecCA55A61f9 | 1KVsfk5jT5fUGbUxomxAsKYxVvSZC9joXs         |
| belzedar   | 0xc7D4E35C3ea831c3Bbf53550621315C79423E95F | bc1q30el678lr9dwcydtm8gjztf389zrj6gfs6ezj5 |
| xjoking    | 0xa4FC40168EF940eD013E1dB6986C5746AAC3b2c3 | 1APLhq2yC421C3G6X5uhLhTmtZMjSUZ38G         |
| Shakho     | 0x356d6162ADa9db9bd31b95Eec92Cd3B1D3273623 | 1CUYk9xCDU9WfTbLZj561M32Q55EZtcyEo         |
| WeZesk     | 0x269eCD3E97A37C27347E4E87D6f3f1B59A0BE2AB | 1BcD15EEpeA1Mfz49oAMfdikeXjhCfiUU6         |
| X0NR8      | 0x86C19f41004d451dc6dcb4f0AC086EDdA1383b70 | bc1qkmg9c0p52xgzqjqswdz6k9gxddwvchr8rt3pm8 |
| wizzz      | 0xAaD7685A29bE275E9404Ba88260E19dB52644DE3 | bc1qx7ha77kanm3nn8fe2ap4ts2uyxjxgmc35llud7 |
| Pepe       | 0xB97749901245b417060bbdFf3D7d1eC90b584a7c | 17SjdBcboW2EPFMyoPwzp64eyjMwTLoBSG         |

The actor WeSupply is unsurprisingly observed using their own tool (using a second forum handle, "Shakho"). Also unsurprising is that many of these handles are also noted in the same forums where WeSteal is promoted.

## Recent Observed Updates, Including WeControl RAT

Immediately before the publication of this report, we noticed some new samples that bore a striking similarity to WeSteal (also Pyarmor-obfuscated compiled Python), but were also different from other WeSteal samples.

This caused us to refresh our research of forums and the actors' website. We note them advertising improvements to WeSteal, as well as selling a new piece of malware called "WeControl" RAT.

#### WeSteal Improvements

When we first analyzed WeSteal, we wondered why the actors included only the ability to monitor for and steal just two cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Although those are the most popular cryptocurrencies, it would surely be simple enough to code for the wallet patterns of other cryptocurrencies as well.
![Updated WeSteal Marketing offers support for additional cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Monero.](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-56.jpeg) Figure 9. Updated WeSteal marketing.

Unsurprisingly, we now note that the authors have added three cryptocurrencies to the list of those that can be stolen:

* Bitcoin: BTC
* Ethereum: ETH
* Litecoin: LTC
* Bitcoin Cash: BCH
* Monero: XMR

#### WeControl RAT

Unfortunately, the timing of the discovery of a new commodity RAT at the actors' site precluded us including a full analysis in this report.
![WeControl is advertised on WeSupply's website as "the first to come rat/botnet hybrid."](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/word-image-97.png) Figure 10. WeControl advertised at the actors' website

WeControl is marketed as a "rat/botnet hybrid." The description seems to indicate that the actors have incorporated the C2-as-a-service model of WeSteal into this RAT as well. This is not "the first" web-based C2aaS as they claim -- [WebMonitor RAT](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-say-cheese-webmonitor-rat-comes-c2-service-c2aas/) has been offering C2aaS for over two years.

Using a familiar technique from WeSteal, WeControl is again compiled Python obfuscated with PyArmor.

We first observed a sample of WeControl mid-April 2021. At the time of publication, we have collected just seven samples of WeControl. The hashes for these can be found at the end of this report.

## Conclusion

WeSteal is a shameless piece of commodity malware with a single, illicit function. Its simplicity is matched by a likely simple effectiveness in the theft of cryptocurrency. The low-sophistication actors who purchase and deploy this malware are thieves, no less so than street pickpockets. Their crimes are as real as their victims.

The fast and simple monetization chain and anonymity of cryptocurrency theft, together with the low cost and simplicity of operation, will undoubtedly make this type of crimeware attractive and popular to less-skilled thieves.

WeControl is similarly both designed and marketed as a tool for illicit activity, lacking in propriety no less than the earlier WeSteal.

The ease of detection and blocking of the C2 as a service works against the Italian malware author ComplexCodes. It's surprising that customers trust their "victims" to the potential control of the malware author, who no doubt could in turn usurp them, stealing the victim "bots" or replacing customers' wallets with one of ComplexCodes' own at any time. It's also surprising that the malware author would risk criminal prosecution for what must surely be a small amount of profit, given the apparently small customer base.

Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.

Palo Alto Networks customers are further protected from WeSteal and WeControl with Cortex XDR or the Next-Generation Firewall with WildFire and Threat Prevention security subscriptions. AutoFocus users can track WeSteal and WeControl activity using the [WeSteal](https://autofocus.paloaltonetworks.com/#/tag/Unit42.WeSteal) and [WeControl](https://autofocus.paloaltonetworks.com/#/tag/Unit42.WeControl) tags.

Palo Alto Networks has shared our findings, including file samples and indicators of compromise, in this report with our fellow Cyber Threat Alliance members. CTA members use this intelligence to deploy protections to their customers rapidly and to systematically disrupt malicious cyber actors. For more information on the Cyber Threat Alliance, visit [https://www.cyberthreatalliance.org/](https://www.cyberthreatalliance.org/).

#### Indicators of Compromise

###### WeSteal Samples

A SHA256 hash list of the 157 identified WeSteal samples, as of the time of publishing this report, is available at our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/pan-unit42/iocs/blob/master/WeSteal%20Hashes.txt).

###### WeControl Samples

59ffba39fc87eacd7c19498b5bb495d9c86c8bec40f3282e996aa80d77c45fa7  
ed6875d60a67149c6cee4798a305810c6bcaa9b0b9349ec397ed331d96707e37  
2bdc916680402a973afca8407d83c299092515cf5cc78ad0a92a8ce2d72b6f7c  
8d37eef0308d5bd03d6c93ab247ca82d2157053822428ad1c787771de8e4332f  
e2b11c10832991577184abd4f57af7383f30142a52fc8e2b41145f416860acf1  
0920763b06f0a90f57910aaeff361d978bf37b025cbb9bc206d290eeb81e6217  
eac7d579002f5e7f2cbff86b8e233c433f14ae25faf112eabaa1e2dd4f2a9a3d

###### C2 / sales domains

wesupply\[.\]to  
wesupply\[.\]io

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