Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    51s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20220901-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20220901-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    06-01-2023 19:39

General

  • Target

    64ME_bul9.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    5b780f32105ff92593db7b30ea2ac9ed

  • SHA1

    6054922a051ce8d25d5d39565a9ad23575b7fe7f

  • SHA256

    aa4cd5e9ff8ef8e4a72601c03154231631a5179167400a5478ca4282188b1163

  • SHA512

    c93d9eee0cd547d513d3920f6fa5d3e22adaf6e4e7285f196ba4001d512f9ac05452e0243c526c713a880981249dbbad31947b08edf22f5eb53c6c77fb69d13d

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulAWC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5omDC9+

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> 89DB5CBA9D41FF8B9907A96EF38DE5AE2EC76AFF70AFA66A7CEFB3E82BBBDA80ED2A37DB165E8D4E816130F1B51FE8DBE8DE50D2A95EC70192552792385F6223<br>E6A3D18FDB2A1F280CBBE19C2406D4D23C86F79EBDB3BA183BF7EB6A7B4765E494D80DAE18B8EA4DB9F12BC786ADCE683A8A81A894BFC0214C37F244C2BC<br>093198C1851F65BF3D211784511AC4FC64FA494D3CF26F4F02ADC93E1531A75D1930FCE405A61AECB36EE1122F751799821A8AF3C4A2D806E1CFCFB07CED<br>6B39A6F82ED55D3D294257EEFFD8483D5613951F3D77E341D0A19B008E213D7FFAC310E9D5B5A6509581FE69E8438872447419D0D2B1166FD43FA0DEEDC0<br>7F0C74DAAE152802F3C7CA2BDF50F7847210477E04F34DBF97F929C37C4789BB8E5E49F7B82EDB3063250312EC7292C7E7D91574C5BEA9163DD81189871C<br>FAA891C4453B3938925AC48DB148FD54A8C08B047193E2D2D5C67AB523013FF0FD2D4893FBF4CC4FBB6927E9238D285D42D84C935A497E4F627D2A45A93E<br>B1218439194594E508A4F7D77B6CD188688BB5F00F1C91B09D8F12CE17AF0893B91ABB2C59D960D7428DA4C82D74127BD1CC28EC54389DD68FC13C146100<br>CDAA4204DFA777381B1B02F5AB411F4ECF46BB9FAA85F0BE03851E492761ABDB44A3D9C82D99B36C0797D2BEF93B0C4FC54E7ADFA1D4B5824D9227072C6B<br>55BF9DEC755560975A4561C9C8A7
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 11 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_bul9.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64ME_bul9.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:1252
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:1736
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1716
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:1580
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:540
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2020
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1968
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:1132
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {B04D0774-5E1D-4C11-942C-BCF8517ECDDA} S-1-5-21-4063495947-34355257-727531523-1000:RYNKSFQE\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1844
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:992

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    5b780f32105ff92593db7b30ea2ac9ed

    SHA1

    6054922a051ce8d25d5d39565a9ad23575b7fe7f

    SHA256

    aa4cd5e9ff8ef8e4a72601c03154231631a5179167400a5478ca4282188b1163

    SHA512

    c93d9eee0cd547d513d3920f6fa5d3e22adaf6e4e7285f196ba4001d512f9ac05452e0243c526c713a880981249dbbad31947b08edf22f5eb53c6c77fb69d13d

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    5b780f32105ff92593db7b30ea2ac9ed

    SHA1

    6054922a051ce8d25d5d39565a9ad23575b7fe7f

    SHA256

    aa4cd5e9ff8ef8e4a72601c03154231631a5179167400a5478ca4282188b1163

    SHA512

    c93d9eee0cd547d513d3920f6fa5d3e22adaf6e4e7285f196ba4001d512f9ac05452e0243c526c713a880981249dbbad31947b08edf22f5eb53c6c77fb69d13d

  • memory/540-58-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/992-62-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1252-54-0x0000000074DE1000-0x0000000074DE3000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/1580-57-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1716-56-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1736-55-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1968-60-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/2020-59-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp