Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    33s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20221111-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20221111-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    06-01-2023 19:39

General

  • Target

    64ME_bul3.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    d2b5f4ae78bc0538a03537a20203b354

  • SHA1

    48318e668b4f9f65ca0597cb3a82e8f8d7b88340

  • SHA256

    bdadf73a531421f832714078c438267a76fd5085596c86f2fa4b7341cb336da1

  • SHA512

    7a36f0fe8fed7aea940e0ee87405f94cbbc5cd1e1f99ae25f313b299fc7d2a0f8806916a3842bd821077ecb524df0e881be71f5744af0dcd0343a1773865c3b0

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulAUC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5ompC9+

Malware Config

Extracted

Path

C:\MSOCache\All Users\{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}-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> C763C24F116480B9F166FC4D842E7A356B9DE572546CB0B7E1661929317BED59840A5094A9FD8BFDB6A94A1141C011D3D6E07E0CB4CE191F4AF45695601EDDBA<br>159D77CA9F3492EEE56A02F77201B0E28C8E8D2C24343692434868C384037E2FEDEAF19294B3D9656CFC3D3A787D5FD174D6C391A9CBEDAD6F3C7C7D9545<br>303037369E78DC50FCA56B326C46790297D63615192FF0679303E47DAF47BEF8D6659ECA5B87714FE2767B947D4EC1BB06AB091F9382373AF00FD2D88540<br>C04122A6F983287C008390D546ADCA554C206B3C1D24E7AEC9AF25025110CADE1DC38F49BD79DFF91A34F1A8C33D9C971D249A429C1169DF2CAAD4F1E720<br>DAE6214BED690966A68B7D76E3DFAF23A74D99DFB9F533FF4517E4DE7883CEAB6B967A9B40AA5AD9D3794A81EEC08312DD4880A3A404DC1D1FDB1DDB303D<br>3ACAF37E1FDB59D7B86543720DF0FF85EF981CA592B75B839BD327BEC2A8099336705D7FA219B69E01B013F97610B05C85383C8DBA2A3AEF7CE81EC24DA1<br>F6CE853CDAA87E8BC42500E97645C3CAA56BA3D7A704B72D866B73F8DA2E7E7C912817653475A0F660CA69F8675B3BF53E91EF1BE904AAF018AF6EEA32EC<br>5F6087968765309676B2D247762196E4EBEB5CBEA27C0FAC60406E38B74CA7F3F1C6BCD530DC6E365F9D9B2C8DBBBB09A814C03FE45F89AB4F5900D5B89C<br>5BFD1516633C7F59EABE903C7B40
Emails

<h2>[email protected]</h2>

<h2>[email protected]</h2>

Signatures

  • MedusaLocker

    Ransomware with several variants first seen in September 2019.

  • MedusaLocker payload 2 IoCs
  • UAC bypass 3 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Deletes shadow copies 2 TTPs

    Ransomware often targets backup files to inhibit system recovery.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Modifies extensions of user files 9 IoCs

    Ransomware generally changes the extension on encrypted files.

  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

  • Checks whether UAC is enabled 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Drops desktop.ini file(s) 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 24 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.

  • Interacts with shadow copies 2 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Shadow copies are often targeted by ransomware to inhibit system recovery.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 63 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 28 IoCs
  • System policy modification 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64ME_bul3.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64ME_bul3.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:1540
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:672
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1820
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:1496
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:744
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:1928
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:828
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:468
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {FC8F13C7-5463-48E5-98C3-E774B76B3A2F} S-1-5-21-3385717845-2518323428-350143044-1000:SABDUHNY\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1008
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:1956

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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Downloads

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    d2b5f4ae78bc0538a03537a20203b354

    SHA1

    48318e668b4f9f65ca0597cb3a82e8f8d7b88340

    SHA256

    bdadf73a531421f832714078c438267a76fd5085596c86f2fa4b7341cb336da1

    SHA512

    7a36f0fe8fed7aea940e0ee87405f94cbbc5cd1e1f99ae25f313b299fc7d2a0f8806916a3842bd821077ecb524df0e881be71f5744af0dcd0343a1773865c3b0

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    d2b5f4ae78bc0538a03537a20203b354

    SHA1

    48318e668b4f9f65ca0597cb3a82e8f8d7b88340

    SHA256

    bdadf73a531421f832714078c438267a76fd5085596c86f2fa4b7341cb336da1

    SHA512

    7a36f0fe8fed7aea940e0ee87405f94cbbc5cd1e1f99ae25f313b299fc7d2a0f8806916a3842bd821077ecb524df0e881be71f5744af0dcd0343a1773865c3b0

  • memory/672-55-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/744-58-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/828-60-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1496-57-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1540-54-0x0000000075931000-0x0000000075933000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1820-56-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1928-59-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1956-62-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp