Analysis

  • max time kernel
    128s
  • max time network
    122s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20230712-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20230712-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    22-08-2023 08:57

General

  • Target

    05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    4660887b36d65e42b7d71d5e18187dfe

  • SHA1

    49ad1eecb9bbb8d736833006685b8c2c1300115b

  • SHA256

    05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873

  • SHA512

    d0983ec2cb04d7b7fe0f1749ca903c34bb9b55a6a57f18d93feefbe7a358c6faddc42cc964e79315a250c940b22c067f2bcecd5d41aa334fe9b992ac632df6f8

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulADC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5omGC9+

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: 7B462FAEEC374B269671573B707B17CF854227A5467F5EC6114D8AD066AB1DA5C27B37A8C7A5E60D6712E0571090C137073B39A5C6B69DEF74719218AB7955F5<br>CEC86A0C6BC1CEAF15FF8472D7688D85E1730EA1158527741AAEDF774794D6C9985DE6F3F8F9EECCF3FB8C5DA2DEF3096B26DA6B328C5F6142DFC05B0657<br>6CE5AB6360A8A1A9E0D3D5971937CEBAB146A8B4F944E6AB0D41427A2CC761BF615B80392CCCC93B67B036485244BA37962EF964176B2E7A0E9F4840F22A<br>EB31AD4729521E4D7C0FC820233872C5AD4231708A17EE906D86DAE0810AAEE8643291601FBCE4E27A7AB363D27FA9823ACDF8A22D3CBBF1B670AA4485E6<br>B1B97AA20F48CB0D8B7C2C31CBC9F4163F090D8CC61E487DF0D4329ECC9BC9457FD160F23BCA5BBB27A47A1C156F45552D9ED42F9C33432CA6276B53D0C1<br>947F6F0EFAF7445D7A6CAB52B31F598755AFCE3009A4EDDCD8DA11078F495548A7888114FA2FC4AC8FC6615A2637AA5F4633C02EC20D3326B3AFF8331215<br>641FB274318BA2EC4FEB3C2AEF0638A298328D3F5920CDC07DBC0C92B07A0427B4A447426484B5880C485DB35B3366ED1C4690A8747885A5E1B6EC2C2245<br>900BDBAF9DCC5B7DEDE7859CF7CA0592D96C73A13FF2B52C11772FE0E6AFCE9FFAFFE1D4CB5C7F96056F7E5229CA4B4390F9AE337F325FBE2DE3C3A9C3E2<br>C35DF828D73E46A9FEEBBC053D38
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 (300) 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\05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873.exe"
    1⤵
    • UAC bypass
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    • System policy modification
    PID:2464
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2612
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2904
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2296
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2972
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2592
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2840
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:3052
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {6F720946-E326-492D-B15A-091F996E3486} S-1-5-21-4219371764-2579186923-3390623117-1000:NVACMPYA\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1048
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:1628

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    4660887b36d65e42b7d71d5e18187dfe

    SHA1

    49ad1eecb9bbb8d736833006685b8c2c1300115b

    SHA256

    05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873

    SHA512

    d0983ec2cb04d7b7fe0f1749ca903c34bb9b55a6a57f18d93feefbe7a358c6faddc42cc964e79315a250c940b22c067f2bcecd5d41aa334fe9b992ac632df6f8

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    4660887b36d65e42b7d71d5e18187dfe

    SHA1

    49ad1eecb9bbb8d736833006685b8c2c1300115b

    SHA256

    05b51b5f41e483020d14126522a13c69b75e5cbb093a78980877bb60cf778873

    SHA512

    d0983ec2cb04d7b7fe0f1749ca903c34bb9b55a6a57f18d93feefbe7a358c6faddc42cc964e79315a250c940b22c067f2bcecd5d41aa334fe9b992ac632df6f8

  • C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT.LOG2

    Filesize

    536B

    MD5

    99899f665305e610c226788489c614b0

    SHA1

    40cef3f26103a29e88ae5438f3826827612e5f38

    SHA256

    6d4dd3a4fce8ed9036954530702b0e0fe3b3f8da3c0527a8994de13e330fd2dc

    SHA512

    667cb21870f9cd6c43cbaff92af994dcb3b7c4b569a4788a5926869bc52f92f5d6d5df12b8948d61b793e7e934e829589f92d12dc7e6a88db479d2abd92fb1b6

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

    Filesize

    5KB

    MD5

    c9669c65961593b3856079230e1e85b3

    SHA1

    ceaf386a8303f140964812a16b05fa87f47d71e4

    SHA256

    d45fb0ba60aba77949234f4968b84b020ad202b024ce8269bc5195902e32d221

    SHA512

    7fa750bb1434e39f63471c0cc99aa79a60ef38883aefead1255d16a080c537223153430c306fb2ea0d2bd74ae6ecee400e039a6ea9ecb7553b2e0852c897effb