Analysis
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max time kernel
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max time network
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platform
windows10-2004_x64 -
resource
win10v2004-20220812-en -
resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20220812-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system -
submitted
13-10-2022 18:27
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
64ME_bul4.exe
Resource
win7-20220812-en
windows7-x64
17 signatures
150 seconds
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
64ME_bul4.exe
Resource
win10v2004-20220812-en
windows10-2004-x64
15 signatures
150 seconds
General
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Target
64ME_bul4.exe
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Size
666KB
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MD5
3adfa0251f25bf5766d96ae7e080c9bc
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SHA1
346882da16b892462929e08e084e7fccf89c2afb
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SHA256
9555810647200a6eda75dfe1527c1d8720e929b19a6086e536fb4fce4d9db485
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SHA512
9c7e05c42bab4455556c7dec89ef8df274010a3cefcf59641a0f23b984826c373df364c5b59188e932136be87ec9b30dba11bf2b6bd9ad9ba4880679fa052622
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SSDEEP
12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulALC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5om+C9+
Malware Config
Extracted
Path
C:\!-Recovery_Instructions-!.html
Ransom Note
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1'>
<title></title>
<style>
html, body {
background-color: #1a1a1a;
}
body {
padding-top: 1rem !important;
font-size: 1.3rem;
color: white;
}
#text h2 {
font-size: 2rem;
font-weight: 600;
line-height: 1.125;
}
.container {
max-width: 1152px;
flex-grow: 1;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: auto;
}
.box {
background-color: #242424;
display: block;
padding: 1.25rem;
border: 1px solid #303030;
}
a {
color: #00b4d8;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
li {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class='container'>
<div class='box'>
<div id='text'>
<h2>If you get this message, your network was hacked!</h2>
<p>After we gained full access to your servers, we first downloaded a large amount of sensitive data and then encrypted all the data stored on them.</p>
<p>That includes personal information on your clients, partners, your personnel, accounting documents, and other crucial files that are necessary for your company to work normally.</p>
<p>We used modern complicated algorithms, so you or any recovery service will not be able to decrypt files without our help, wasting time on these attempts instead of negotiations can be fatal for your company.</p>
<p>Make sure to act within <span style='color:#f4a261;'>72</span> hours or the negotiations will be considered failed!</p>
<p>Inform your superior management about what's going on.</p>
<p> Contact us for price and get decryption software.</p>
<p> Contact us by email:<p>
<h2>[email protected]</h2>
</p>If you will get no answer within 24 hours contact us by our alternate emails:</p>
<h2>[email protected]</h2>
</p>To verify the possibility of the recovery of your files we can decrypted 1-3 file for free.</p>
</p>Attach file to the letter (no more than 5Mb).</p>
<h2>If you and us succeed the negotiations we will grant you:</h2>
<ul>
<li>complete confidentiality, we will keep in secret any information regarding to attack, your company will act as if nothing had happened.</li>
<li>comprehensive information about vulnerabilities of your network and security report.</li>
<li>software and instructions to decrypt all the data that was encrypted.</li>
<li>all sensitive downloaded data will be permanently deleted from our cloud storage and we will provide an erasure log.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Our options if you act like nothing's happening, refuse to make a deal or fail the negotiations:</h2>
<ul>
<li>inform the media and independent journalists about what happened to your servers. To prove it we'll publish a chunk of private data that you should have ciphered if you care about potential breaches.
Moreover, your company will inevitably take decent reputational loss which is hard to assess precisely.</li>
<li>inform your clients, employees, partners by phone, e-mail, sms and social networks that you haven't prevent their data leakage.
You will violate laws about private data protection.</li>
<li>start DDOS attack on you website and infrastructures.</li>
<li>personal data stored will be put on sale on the Darknet to find anyone interested to buy useful information regarding your company. It could be data mining agencies or your market competitors.</li>
<li>publish all the discovered vulnerabilities found in your network, so anyone will do anything with it.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why pay us?</h2>
<p>We care about our reputation. You are welcome to google our cases up and be sure that we don't have a single case of failure to provide what we promissed.</p>
<p>Turning this issue to a bug bounty will save your private information, reputation and will allow you to use the security report and
avoid this kind of situations in future.</p>
<h2>Your personal ID</p>
84772F6144B4AF15FA1F5F1828E490985B5D773B650783627F04006DB21C1AC66738616B628D5F3A9106B02E35373F32EBE841E23F5CE652D2AE47F2DC278ABD<br>4D0D7B7BF2CE73255CD28F3A1C446888BC57B4BFDD7BE4D8338B667DE0655B45908B8793F1BC39076D33FD0C2AE044A944FDDD7D3920DC37E6CA8E5F1FB9<br>44021D499630E562A3B75CA8E5E296DD8F76763D063E7EB36C6400D0CF0C1DD0701936D0FF09554C014DF41518D3C2EEF8A9BDA40A82C7FD8AF41CE793A4<br>FDA33C78A6D7A223CB1E9ED19845A276A96970A3ACAB988133AB52C31D2DE6B5DFFAB0C7DAA4BCFBB7F154484AA4628CC578AB83339567DF24E38F4D8639<br>A67FBDFA3E364803B212E67B0321CEE92310D1E83DF6B211F492B13C6791DA07843D163DA8F4C4AFD860B5BF3AB739606EE0FA9958ABD4C7C995C5B04E40<br>45E4E1B7C37FC165AB8C329D7B965A54E8BCB18E398C8EC92D123410271858BF0D938E26462DF1400B80D5985FEAE24ABF021ED05E91AE267DDCD8D867BF<br>A8202CBE44272EBDEF4AE01FDCF3E80FADEDA97EF63A7FC0B0C9B456E0C50081EB333A0220D565A24635BB3EEB4D2A60FB23EF3710F07C3E774FE3B9B72D<br>B34D867E4160E1A4B05C5EFE57E6F67A2A24628D64D0C333F3A32A44EA7F35D377CF1FA119214BC4DFAFFBB7A43E14DF41092D58320C932BD09F506C6A94<br>ADAABB3C27C67F94BD75B5DAA082
Emails
Signatures
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MedusaLocker
Ransomware with several variants first seen in September 2019.
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MedusaLocker payload 2 IoCs
Processes:
resource yara_rule behavioral2/files/0x000b000000022e67-135.dat family_medusalocker behavioral2/files/0x000b000000022e67-136.dat family_medusalocker -
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin = "0" 64ME_bul4.exe Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA = "0" 64ME_bul4.exe -
Detects MedusaLocker ransomware 2 IoCs
Processes:
resource yara_rule behavioral2/files/0x000b000000022e67-135.dat MALWARE_Win_MedusaLocker behavioral2/files/0x000b000000022e67-136.dat MALWARE_Win_MedusaLocker -
Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
Processes:
svhost.exepid Process 1856 svhost.exe -
Modifies extensions of user files 5 IoCs
Ransomware generally changes the extension on encrypted files.
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process File renamed C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\SearchUndo.raw => C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\SearchUndo.raw.bulwark4 64ME_bul4.exe File renamed C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ConvertFromSync.raw => C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ConvertFromSync.raw.bulwark4 64ME_bul4.exe File renamed C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ExitConnect.crw => C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ExitConnect.crw.bulwark4 64ME_bul4.exe File renamed C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\PopSubmit.png => C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\PopSubmit.png.bulwark4 64ME_bul4.exe File renamed C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ResetStart.png => C:\Users\Admin\Pictures\ResetStart.png.bulwark4 64ME_bul4.exe -
Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs
Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.
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Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA = "0" 64ME_bul4.exe -
Drops desktop.ini file(s) 1 IoCs
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process File opened for modification \??\Z:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2295526160-1155304984-640977766-1000\desktop.ini 64ME_bul4.exe -
Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 24 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process File opened (read-only) \??\U: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\V: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\I: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\N: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\P: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\A: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\E: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\L: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\J: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\M: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\O: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Q: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\R: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\B: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\G: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\H: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\T: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\W: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\X: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Y: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Z: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\F: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\K: 64ME_bul4.exe File opened (read-only) \??\S: 64ME_bul4.exe -
Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.
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Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exepid Process 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 1404 64ME_bul4.exe -
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 63 IoCs
Processes:
wmic.exewmic.exewmic.exedescription pid Process Token: SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeSecurityPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeLoadDriverPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemProfilePrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemtimePrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeProfSingleProcessPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeIncBasePriorityPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeCreatePagefilePrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeBackupPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeRestorePrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeShutdownPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeUndockPrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeManageVolumePrivilege 5076 wmic.exe Token: 33 5076 wmic.exe Token: 34 5076 wmic.exe Token: 35 5076 wmic.exe Token: 36 5076 wmic.exe Token: SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeSecurityPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeLoadDriverPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemProfilePrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemtimePrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeProfSingleProcessPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeIncBasePriorityPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeCreatePagefilePrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeBackupPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeRestorePrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeShutdownPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeUndockPrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeManageVolumePrivilege 3920 wmic.exe Token: 33 3920 wmic.exe Token: 34 3920 wmic.exe Token: 35 3920 wmic.exe Token: 36 3920 wmic.exe Token: SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeSecurityPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeLoadDriverPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemProfilePrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemtimePrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeProfSingleProcessPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeIncBasePriorityPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeCreatePagefilePrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeBackupPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeRestorePrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeShutdownPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeUndockPrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: SeManageVolumePrivilege 3660 wmic.exe Token: 33 3660 wmic.exe Token: 34 3660 wmic.exe Token: 35 3660 wmic.exe Token: 36 3660 wmic.exe -
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription pid Process procid_target PID 1404 wrote to memory of 5076 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 84 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 5076 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 84 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 5076 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 84 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3920 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 86 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3920 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 86 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3920 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 86 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3660 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 88 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3660 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 88 PID 1404 wrote to memory of 3660 1404 64ME_bul4.exe 88 -
System policy modification 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Processes:
64ME_bul4.exedescription ioc Process Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA = "0" 64ME_bul4.exe Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin = "0" 64ME_bul4.exe Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLinkedConnections = "1" 64ME_bul4.exe
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64ME_bul4.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64ME_bul4.exe"1⤵
- UAC bypass
- Modifies extensions of user files
- Checks whether UAC is enabled
- Drops desktop.ini file(s)
- Enumerates connected drives
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
- System policy modification
PID:1404 -
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exewmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive2⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:5076
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exewmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive2⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:3920
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exewmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive2⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:3660
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
PID:1856
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6
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Downloads
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Filesize
666KB
MD53adfa0251f25bf5766d96ae7e080c9bc
SHA1346882da16b892462929e08e084e7fccf89c2afb
SHA2569555810647200a6eda75dfe1527c1d8720e929b19a6086e536fb4fce4d9db485
SHA5129c7e05c42bab4455556c7dec89ef8df274010a3cefcf59641a0f23b984826c373df364c5b59188e932136be87ec9b30dba11bf2b6bd9ad9ba4880679fa052622
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Filesize
666KB
MD53adfa0251f25bf5766d96ae7e080c9bc
SHA1346882da16b892462929e08e084e7fccf89c2afb
SHA2569555810647200a6eda75dfe1527c1d8720e929b19a6086e536fb4fce4d9db485
SHA5129c7e05c42bab4455556c7dec89ef8df274010a3cefcf59641a0f23b984826c373df364c5b59188e932136be87ec9b30dba11bf2b6bd9ad9ba4880679fa052622