Analysis

  • max time kernel
    159s
  • max time network
    160s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20220812-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20220812-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    06-01-2023 19:39

General

  • Target

    64_MEcip5.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    1a018c68582e13d7f51aa58f87e2ed50

  • SHA1

    9568f4a2959eda46af35c5d18c190f0d85047ac3

  • SHA256

    860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7

  • SHA512

    a6775058f5ee5adc24b1f3fb6dbd29d9b0315e17a7061679bcda146a377912cf46292456435af27fd7790b6a8cc83025c4964c6526cdf1528cd55e8d68c1b7c9

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulAZC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5omIC9+

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 pricing and decryption software.</p> <p> Contact us by email:<p> <h2>[email protected]</h2> </p>If you do not receive a response within 24 hours, please contact us at our additional contacts:</p> <p> 1) Download for TOX CHAT https://tox.chat/download.html</p> <p> 2) Open chat<p> <p>Add ID Chat: </p><h2>3C9D49B928FDC3C15F0314217623A71B865909B308576B4B0D10AEA62C98677B4A3F160D5C93</h2> <p>If we did not answer you, leave the chat enabled, the operator will contact you!<p> </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> Your ID: 088F193D401815569175A22C362909A94026FC54A9879239B7ECDF52A50DCDACCBAB1B982192CEBBF431F0CF1A8FFBABD8565AFDAC677BB9BCAFB55D8A44737E<br>0A1C4A7F62C03F0DBF8656141A661E78EF6ADAD3A2702484F2FA1015F74D5B0AF9466631A80104E3E23AF6DA90B0130E86AF4092A3F37CD6D4D978199290<br>06A4E1B89416A0EEC869F64926B1266AB68C38E20C497B3894275F0F926C81135E1D28C167EADC4A8CCB1AC1493EDE9C30E57B07E1293246B60D921DA085<br>C2FDADCE593E7DAD72A59A2BAAF8E176B02B89D7F58556D1A8420B050AC88E6487052DF555CDBF97D820E704CEEB4E9B4BF4FBF4854C8ADC4560C4A82FAB<br>63FB451B7C419A4D513DFCEB9C7C3619A77B227FB5D5212B7BAA3EF93993FC2108D281F47E3334B8370E3EF88F5A9C8FA006932C5E485449CE0EFF5FC137<br>4272C7ACC6F52C5CF278C9D2E72E53110E9945CC4EFAF51D41C203232F5AF0E0365DB05FA92793A956BADEBE1D49FA92E7941A73EE2333B6776E43C979B8<br>CA92CF44FDA603673A92CF815B2443DE534FB6714B8C13ACF54410D355310788B305C61296075542C079E77DCD1CA8F2D317D3EB9E39151AC1AD68389F5B<br>DCB60F70843906E394153686595C575641806366CEF01B228C8D72ECD82FB0A8B3B748730208C8452EE2A62124E8CFFF13D56CDFD017FA7174C2CDA41F9B<br>8194E1868B83FDC5AECF58A9781F
Emails
URLs

https://tox.chat/download.html</p>

Signatures

  • MedusaLocker

    Ransomware with several variants first seen in September 2019.

  • MedusaLocker payload 2 IoCs
  • UAC bypass 3 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Modifies extensions of user files 2 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.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 63 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs
  • System policy modification 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64_MEcip5.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\64_MEcip5.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:4720
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1588
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1440
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3764
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    PID:3092

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v6

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    1a018c68582e13d7f51aa58f87e2ed50

    SHA1

    9568f4a2959eda46af35c5d18c190f0d85047ac3

    SHA256

    860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7

    SHA512

    a6775058f5ee5adc24b1f3fb6dbd29d9b0315e17a7061679bcda146a377912cf46292456435af27fd7790b6a8cc83025c4964c6526cdf1528cd55e8d68c1b7c9

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    1a018c68582e13d7f51aa58f87e2ed50

    SHA1

    9568f4a2959eda46af35c5d18c190f0d85047ac3

    SHA256

    860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7

    SHA512

    a6775058f5ee5adc24b1f3fb6dbd29d9b0315e17a7061679bcda146a377912cf46292456435af27fd7790b6a8cc83025c4964c6526cdf1528cd55e8d68c1b7c9

  • memory/1440-133-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/1588-132-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp

  • memory/3764-134-0x0000000000000000-mapping.dmp