Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    123s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20230712-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20230712-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    22-08-2023 08:58

General

  • Target

    9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    1a1bd3c9901502ba239c242a43ffc7d3

  • SHA1

    1365c2d7edcf5e6e970bd7a8257a24eece404098

  • SHA256

    9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c

  • SHA512

    85fc17144dd0d739444acdb859b76c257570005e5587e9f49ede70cbac1a3b8eaf4325e745bff888fdbcd25174be750bb752bbb16185d6fb3df81cbd6a977b25

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulAiC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5om3C9+

Malware Config

Extracted

Path

\Device\HarddiskVolume1\Boot\!-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: 1289065F974466600F1BD0A34AC5BE893702582F94E75ED674793D4CF5407675ECB3541A887E5EDE0161C902CFA95CD0A4D7999CB7EAE778DBDD60D5D48B7020<br>B427DAECF02FFDC9B301264C5483F2FDD9EEE374007506E615DAB29759BA3FCF9D5AE25DB833782EC63A26771DB5B58AE1D10241D543EC4A610293B2CCF0<br>747824D092A38FC40E291C509343477C9BBBC8E6E81E58DA31FF7AF40B26E693885D40CB5BC78B1FE1EAEB2BE404C506C1BD815E31CCF07FD399597DE795<br>C966CB0706C7B242229B2FD6051FA4E1D56306B29F027C57927A31653E103F7FA4C9448820A44C012CC68488D77742F5880DBFE898EAB2DC235E439757ED<br>C6C82901E39B747F6814C0B3B3F439CB27D24B7EFC60952BAEDF1AB5886BC02FA0C7B1E31B2078514312BAB0EA9FECE5E07C92CC41D7A0444EF873004E46<br>FDE254ACA9E7DCE3CA1B9C1715F0ECEF11BB5F5F72D678FAE07F15345ACEC2EF30D0AE66E9593051376642FFDB65254220D921A14EC1856DB64AAA5AC611<br>AAD0A9A1B6264DDCD57A580AC708D0709E68007984B20BE079F651F671A5555D536F3527EF3C8EE9BC1E19BF0A891ED506E045782F1DBD97F85C4154551F<br>185277E63145C87BF3AF9EA879231AA9620667D9DF1BCED973C1C49B85263AF35DB409BDC87FA8DDDCB536445C8D57FFCA3CAB4BEC403A9ED6BA21C5A544<br>540B4E2575623E3DDB13F746B613
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
  • Deletes shadow copies 2 TTPs

    Ransomware often targets backup files to inhibit system recovery.

  • Renames multiple (288) files with added filename extension

    This suggests ransomware activity of encrypting all the files on the system.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs

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

  • 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).

  • 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\9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c.exe"
    1⤵
    • UAC bypass
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    • System policy modification
    PID:1684
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2880
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3044
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2764
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2668
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2696
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2836
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2980
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {5E58580E-FDDC-4916-BB99-DCF4A04EEAC4} S-1-5-21-1014134971-2480516131-292343513-1000:NYBYVYTJ\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1084
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:1232

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    1a1bd3c9901502ba239c242a43ffc7d3

    SHA1

    1365c2d7edcf5e6e970bd7a8257a24eece404098

    SHA256

    9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c

    SHA512

    85fc17144dd0d739444acdb859b76c257570005e5587e9f49ede70cbac1a3b8eaf4325e745bff888fdbcd25174be750bb752bbb16185d6fb3df81cbd6a977b25

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    1a1bd3c9901502ba239c242a43ffc7d3

    SHA1

    1365c2d7edcf5e6e970bd7a8257a24eece404098

    SHA256

    9e7723372ff1ee68d817cf9ac7de7c0994d528e6fcf7fb3fcf17125e4cb59d0c

    SHA512

    85fc17144dd0d739444acdb859b76c257570005e5587e9f49ede70cbac1a3b8eaf4325e745bff888fdbcd25174be750bb752bbb16185d6fb3df81cbd6a977b25

  • C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT.LOG2

    Filesize

    536B

    MD5

    ae3be6949bf3e6357a46c45011bee0c3

    SHA1

    2bf4ebd1ac7e3c1fb07fa6d147160d586cdd40ed

    SHA256

    13561ed7344085555fd024e222b40d977ae30184f4402b43b4ad80783ada368e

    SHA512

    d351a83ff12c4a88198582bb489eb15e07179bc22f4c0028ff463ec13823f201867136f16f316c78a4ac0fdcc422b22d358f09931c03db6efcb2700363855455

  • \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Boot\!-Recovery_Instructions-!.html

    Filesize

    5KB

    MD5

    3b867fed4a78672446ee8ee4f0cdae4b

    SHA1

    bf05f96f9a022edd63187af348d3737823ef2130

    SHA256

    39bfb81c07d38019a6a130bbfa121fb8267dce6b90d0320924494183f6a9bd71

    SHA512

    29b8d2488ad4f41211193d4a716e87ea24f773e7ae7506d94861a44b12e17d3fff96f1c4fbd25b2420ee5c4087cf15dbde56e404784a6fc2bc39b93a7c68474d