pescanner.py

# Some changes were made to the file to integrate CapTipper
#
#          CapTipper is a malicious HTTP traffic explorer tool
#          By Omri Herscovici <omriher AT gmail.com>
#          http://omriher.com
#          @omriher
#
#          This file is part of CapTipper
#
#          CapTipper is a free software under the GPLv3 License
#

#!/usr/bin/python
# Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Ligh
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# [NOTES] -----------------------------------------------------------
# 1) Tested on Linux (Ubuntu), Windows XP/7, and Mac OS X
# 2) The only requirement is pefile, other modules just add extra info
# 3) There are various versions of python-magic and pyssdeep - we try to support both
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
import hashlib
import time
import binascii
import string
import os, sys
import commands

try:
    import pefile
    import peutils
except ImportError:
    #print 'pefile not installed, see http://code.google.com/p/pefile/'
    #sys.exit()
    pass

try:
    import magic
except ImportError:
    #print 'python-magic is not installed, file types will not be available'
    pass
    
try:
    import yara
except ImportError:
    #print 'yara-python is not installed, see http://code.google.com/p/yara-project/'
    pass

# suspicious APIs to alert on 
alerts = ['OpenProcess', 'VirtualAllocEx', 'WriteProcessMemory', 'CreateRemoteThread', 'ReadProcessMemory',
          'CreateProcess', 'WinExec', 'ShellExecute', 'HttpSendRequest', 'InternetReadFile', 'InternetConnect',
          'CreateService', 'StartService']
          
# legit entry point sections
good_ep_sections = ['.text', '.code', 'CODE', 'INIT', 'PAGE']

# path to clamscan (optional)
clamscan_path = '/usr/bin/clamscanx'

def convert_char(char):
    if char in string.ascii_letters or \
       char in string.digits or \
       char in string.punctuation or \
       char in string.whitespace:
        return char
    else:
        return r'\x%02x' % ord(char)

def convert_to_printable(s):
    return ''.join([convert_char(c) for c in s])

def get_filetype(data):
    """There are two versions of python-magic floating around, and annoyingly, the interface 
    changed between versions, so we try one method and if it fails, then we try the other.
    NOTE: you may need to alter the magic_file for your system to point to the magic file."""
    if sys.modules.has_key('magic'):
        try:
            ms = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_NONE) 
            ms.load() 
            return ms.buffer(data)
        except:
            try:
                return magic.from_buffer(data)
            except magic.MagicException:
                magic_custom = magic.Magic(magic_file='C:\windows\system32\magic')
                return magic_custom.from_buffer(data)
    return ''

def get_ssdeep(filename):
    """There are two Python bindings for ssdeep, each with a different interface. So we try
    Jose's pyssdeep first and if it fails, try the one from pypi. Just install one or the other:
    http://code.google.com/p/pyssdeep/
    http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/ssdeep/ssdeep-2.5.tar.gz#md5=fd9e5271c01ca389cc621ae306327ab6
    """
    try:
        from ssdeep import ssdeep 
        s = ssdeep()
        return s.hash_file(filename)
    except:
        try:
            import ssdeep
            return ssdeep.hash_from_file(filename)
        except:
            pass
    return ''

class PEScanner:
    def __init__(self, data, yara_rules=None, peid_sigs=None):
        self.pedata = data
        
        # initialize YARA rules if provided 
        if yara_rules and sys.modules.has_key('yara'):
            self.rules = yara.compile(yara_rules)
        else:
            self.rules = None
            
        # initialize PEiD signatures if provided 
        if peid_sigs:
            self.sigs = peutils.SignatureDatabase(peid_sigs)
        else:
            self.sigs = None
        
    def check_ep_section(self, pe):
        """ Determine if a PE's entry point is suspicious """
        name = ''
        ep = pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.AddressOfEntryPoint
        pos = 0
        for sec in pe.sections:
            if (ep >= sec.VirtualAddress) and \
               (ep < (sec.VirtualAddress + sec.Misc_VirtualSize)):
                name = sec.Name.replace('\x00', '')
                break
            else: 
                pos += 1
        return (ep, name, pos)

    def check_verinfo(self, pe):
        """ Determine the version info in a PE file """
        ret = []
        
        if hasattr(pe, 'VS_VERSIONINFO'):
            if hasattr(pe, 'FileInfo'):
                for entry in pe.FileInfo:
                    if hasattr(entry, 'StringTable'):
                        for st_entry in entry.StringTable:
                            for str_entry in st_entry.entries.items():
                                ret.append(convert_to_printable(str_entry[0]) + ': ' + convert_to_printable(str_entry[1]) )
                    elif hasattr(entry, 'Var'):
                        for var_entry in entry.Var:
                            if hasattr(var_entry, 'entry'):
                                ret.append(convert_to_printable(var_entry.entry.keys()[0]) + ': ' + var_entry.entry.values()[0])
        return '\n'.join(ret)

    def check_tls(self, pe):
        callbacks = []
        if (hasattr(pe, 'DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS') and \
                    pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS and \
                    pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS.struct and \
                    pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS.struct.AddressOfCallBacks):
            callback_array_rva = pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS.struct.AddressOfCallBacks - pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.ImageBase 
            idx = 0
            while True:
                func = pe.get_dword_from_data(pe.get_data(callback_array_rva + 4 * idx, 4), 0)
                if func == 0: 
                    break
                callbacks.append(func)
                idx += 1
        return callbacks

    def check_rsrc(self, pe):
        ret = {}
        if hasattr(pe, 'DIRECTORY_ENTRY_RESOURCE'):
            i = 0
            for resource_type in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_RESOURCE.entries:
                if resource_type.name is not None:
                    name = "%s" % resource_type.name
                else:
                    name = "%s" % pefile.RESOURCE_TYPE.get(resource_type.struct.Id)
                if name == None:
                    name = "%d" % resource_type.struct.Id
                if hasattr(resource_type, 'directory'):
                    for resource_id in resource_type.directory.entries:
                        if hasattr(resource_id, 'directory'):
                            for resource_lang in resource_id.directory.entries:
                                data = pe.get_data(resource_lang.data.struct.OffsetToData, resource_lang.data.struct.Size)
                                filetype = get_filetype(data)
                                lang = pefile.LANG.get(resource_lang.data.lang, '*unknown*')
                                sublang = pefile.get_sublang_name_for_lang( resource_lang.data.lang, resource_lang.data.sublang )
                                ret[i] = (name, resource_lang.data.struct.OffsetToData, resource_lang.data.struct.Size, filetype, lang, sublang)
                                i += 1
        return ret                            

    def check_imports(self, pe):
        ret = []
        if not hasattr(pe, 'DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT'):
            return ret
        for lib in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT:
            for imp in lib.imports:
                if (imp.name != None) and (imp.name != ""):
                    for alert in alerts:
                        if imp.name.startswith(alert):
                            ret.append(imp.name)
        return ret

    def get_timestamp(self, pe):
        val = pe.FILE_HEADER.TimeDateStamp
        ts = '0x%-8X' % (val)
        try:
            ts += ' [%s UTC]' % time.asctime(time.gmtime(val))
            that_year = time.gmtime(val)[0]
            this_year = time.gmtime(time.time())[0]
            if that_year < 2000 or that_year > this_year:
                ts += " [SUSPICIOUS]"
        except:
            ts += ' [SUSPICIOUS]'
        return ts

    def check_packers(self, pe):
        packers = []
        if self.sigs:
            matches = self.sigs.match(pe, ep_only = True)
            if matches != None:
                for match in matches:
                    packers.append(match)
        return packers

    def check_yara(self, data):
        ret = []
        if self.rules:
            yarahits = self.rules.match(data=data)
            if yarahits:
              for hit in yarahits:
                ret.append("YARA: %s" % hit.rule)
                #for key, val in hit.strings.iteritems():
                for (key,stringname,val) in hit.strings:
                    makehex = False
                    for char in val:
                        if char not in string.printable:
                            makehex = True
                            break
                    if makehex == True:
                        ret.append("   %s => %s" % (hex(key), binascii.hexlify(val)))
                    else:
                        ret.append("   %s => %s" % (hex(key), val))
        return '\n'.join(ret)

    def check_clam(self, file):
        if os.path.isfile(clamscan_path):
            status, output = commands.getstatusoutput("%s %s" % (clamscan_path, file))
            if status != 0:
                return "Clamav: %s" % output.split("\n")[0]
        return ''

    def header(self, msg):
        return "\n" + msg + "\n" + ("=" * 80)

    def collect(self):
        out = []

        data = self.pedata

        if data == None or len(data) == 0:
            out.append("")
            out.append("    Cannot read %s (maybe empty?)" % file)
            out.append("")
            #print '\n'.join(out)
            #return False
            return out

        try:
            pe = pefile.PE(data=data, fast_load=True)
            pe.parse_data_directories( directories=[
                pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY['IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT'],
                pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY['IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_EXPORT'],
                pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY['IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_TLS'],
                pefile.DIRECTORY_ENTRY['IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_RESOURCE']])
        except:
            out.append("")
            out.append("    Cannot parse %s (maybe not PE?)" % file)
            out.append("")
            #print '\n'.join(out)
            #return False
            return out


        out.append(self.header("Meta-data"))
        #out.append("File:    %s" % file)
        out.append("Size:    %d bytes" % len(data))
        #out.append("Type:    %s" % get_filetype(data))
        out.append("MD5:     %s"  % hashlib.md5(data).hexdigest())
        out.append("SHA1:    %s" % hashlib.sha1(data).hexdigest())
        #out.append("ssdeep:  %s" % get_ssdeep(file))
        out.append("Date:    %s" % self.get_timestamp(pe))

        # Alert if the EP section is not in a known good section or if its in the last PE section
        (ep, name, pos) = self.check_ep_section(pe)
        s = "EP:      %s %s %d/%d" % (hex(ep+pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.ImageBase), name, pos, len(pe.sections))
        if (name not in good_ep_sections) or pos == len(pe.sections):
            s += " [SUSPICIOUS]"
        out.append(s)

        crc_claimed = pe.OPTIONAL_HEADER.CheckSum
        crc_actual  = pe.generate_checksum()
        out.append("CRC:     Claimed: 0x%x, Actual: 0x%x %s" % (
            crc_claimed, crc_actual, "[SUSPICIOUS]" if crc_actual != crc_claimed else ""))

        packers = self.check_packers(pe)
        if len(packers):
            out.append("Packers: %s" % ','.join(packers))

        if sys.modules.has_key('yara'):
            yarahits = self.check_yara(data)
        else:
            yarahits = []

        clamhits = self.check_clam(file)

        if len(yarahits) or len(clamhits):
            out.append(self.header("Signature scans"))
            out.append(yarahits)
            out.append(clamhits)

        callbacks = self.check_tls(pe)
        if len(callbacks):
            out.append(self.header("TLS callbacks"))
            for cb in callbacks:
                out.append("    0x%x" % cb)

        resources = self.check_rsrc(pe)
        if len(resources):
            out.append(self.header("Resource entries"))
            out.append("%-18s %-8s %-8s %-12s %-24s Type" % ("Name", "RVA", "Size", "Lang", "Sublang"))
            out.append("-" * 80)
            for rsrc in resources.keys():
                (name,rva,size,type,lang,sublang) = resources[rsrc]
                out.append("%-18s %-8s %-8s %-12s %-24s %s" % (name, hex(rva), hex(size), lang, sublang, type))

        imports = self.check_imports(pe)
        if len(imports):
            out.append(self.header("Suspicious IAT alerts"))
            for imp in imports:
                out.append(imp)

        out.append(self.header("Sections"))
        out.append("%-10s %-12s %-12s %-12s %-12s" % ("Name", "VirtAddr", "VirtSize", "RawSize", "Entropy"))
        out.append("-" * 80)

        for sec in pe.sections:
            s = "%-10s %-12s %-12s %-12s %-12f" % (
                ''.join([c for c in sec.Name if c in string.printable]),
                hex(sec.VirtualAddress),
                hex(sec.Misc_VirtualSize),
                hex(sec.SizeOfRawData),
                sec.get_entropy())
            if sec.SizeOfRawData == 0 or (sec.get_entropy() > 0 and sec.get_entropy() < 1) or sec.get_entropy() > 7:
                s += "[SUSPICIOUS]"
            out.append(s)

        verinfo = self.check_verinfo(pe)
        if len(verinfo):
            out.append(self.header("Version info"))
            out.append(verinfo)

        out.append("")
        return out