Analysis

  • max time kernel
    128s
  • max time network
    121s
  • 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

    860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    1a018c68582e13d7f51aa58f87e2ed50

  • SHA1

    9568f4a2959eda46af35c5d18c190f0d85047ac3

  • SHA256

    860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7

  • SHA512

    a6775058f5ee5adc24b1f3fb6dbd29d9b0315e17a7061679bcda146a377912cf46292456435af27fd7790b6a8cc83025c4964c6526cdf1528cd55e8d68c1b7c9

  • SSDEEP

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

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: 0FCAFE67B8A9750EC1A8A04C2ED414D022EBC6F2DA3CC004FC56FFCE1B77FF9F48D280B421574BEC56E159BEF13A4F0E0A316DF4CB8C54B5326D68E8644345E7<br>C122D84368396093F9EEF5EAB9BF70C25307FA02C90BC61B2E717F3802BC27115D9F3A279F63DCBE5FE2D4FEE3925A06494151652ACED716D58A7A07DC04<br>8250E01DC6CEEFE5618446F782035A76018E99C9C516B2AFA02643940D08F86A4B9C375DAF72E91C63C6A27B835EA571B1673B1B0D11A0658B0E51B9F81E<br>F3934CD3C1E9AA23425CC9BD90A3C7C493FB774E4923B5606E6834230B65BD48551D6E9DB16A30B3BB66007E0310242FC9B9370B6FB83A364944B3DA1C86<br>5F5D943835A7449F140842703380AA8810498C301796368AAF1909A3CA9632FD895933F192826143A38FF8570A4D6B15CAA26FB6E051718538519F6809BF<br>48C3E1F1572C1AF32A97C853EA8BCF2944F43658DFE9890C65D0F87D77442823E1F224F4D7B728492CFCC346BC1FEEE9489BBF4DE0EAAB479483DCA262E4<br>F197CE9031485A4577B18760F4FE51C86EC797D0FFCE0034B48914D813A40B522269E482AEDE6194C712E49FD8D2B270B208C5E853D44B7AF2565431039C<br>F0998DCCFFA81E0A43A2DD587FD6AC960005093F87B574B1AF55D0C34AF12E8FC1A5298E85E6D3193BB23AE39F06894A2738988A8EFB16A6C44261579FAE<br>EE60242E566F53DCD604DD56ED51
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 (281) 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\860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\860154eb48c722136e8c84b14a528be602aa6bc3de77523ea4d9490f280f69d7.exe"
    1⤵
    • UAC bypass
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    • System policy modification
    PID:1736
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2568
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2528
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2972
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2824
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2844
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2756
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:1916
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {0688F4B0-9D09-4AF8-9703-94C889448A54} S-1-5-21-2969888527-3102471180-2307688834-1000:YKQDESCX\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1092
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:680

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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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

  • C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT.LOG2

    Filesize

    536B

    MD5

    35851b834f9c8629b7be034a5efeee66

    SHA1

    886e83de2641518b09efe7790f732d7e4d514b9d

    SHA256

    85d010b32cf2cb0a715999b7ba985aa385908ddbb986bbfe087b5565e98d0aaf

    SHA512

    16596d11896dbc06650cfc7fe48d45c1f56af3f1b930e85e7eec5e8d92d864ff129ba077c2fa9bec05816c772658dc5086501a139fd4b747c6613ce3ab888f4d

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

    Filesize

    5KB

    MD5

    fef0fff3fd9b20a31cf184d43c424d6c

    SHA1

    fa19f775868ddf0db8930b48b14211c832e067c6

    SHA256

    10dc9a8e93e23e880ab52c4815070dcdd79ff8d9fe8d51c24af46dcb817513ad

    SHA512

    363645db919bd2e2a8fc87ed1a3d5392a727f3a07edb9330c7560cf7650bf54337a1d2bbbbe8b817a79f1628c2b7b5b28a3aea9a6c87c86c3803a4d9435a740f