Analysis

  • max time kernel
    140s
  • max time network
    124s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20230712-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20230712-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    22-08-2023 08:59

General

  • Target

    ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    8645a413332f840e925bac3cf19ceb57

  • SHA1

    87ca0cd2e1c04c2437d302f2864d1e68ea991677

  • SHA256

    ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea

  • SHA512

    ac23c7f28deb3700847bcbf3305e1d6ef133d8ecb45010092024d696ba3839ea53aeee87077f3efc88f9d933673a7147edb862c2ac5636f9f63c3809a557625e

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulAFC9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5omMC9+

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: E482329C842212DFA30A79159E9D6E7613CA3C200D868817376D49228BAA3938AD7806D3629296C243B280368C874CB8006A19E34D7D064576C87E34FCA05398<br>5141442D22D3B004E2362E50222654270D614308EBB0CFAF6FC6A6999145B6C24ADA9CE9BE440C954C6115F44EBBA69A1FE468F743ADA9F8758478785B2E<br>ED6D482F32E62E5133855A812F05C4FF2EE78625E8AA5204383BCD0D0403BE3EBB74A902A27D1B40FA027AB7FBE0C20DEF0F5912DA725BFC8B653FC74D8D<br>F91F848D6A07601B0ABD19BFA878B7BB2B423E7D7EDF2FCB3598F48F94F2231D2F9CCE138FCA78DE115C6BD8B08716CCC93A7E77E35B3DF5C5128AF03B6F<br>0893EC9839792A29D243AEB226B7AA13E39E375BB055735527482BA2D57A09F31AA0C665BC4F5276B0087E2885CFD57BD05FFA88C0FFD76A684F9971312E<br>B00263C8B83B6B63EDB403E54E2ED68485B5E4854D6447FB61A07557B2E8F3A34B07DEDDAC6DFA14C32FBC1208E329220114F228E3F924A078F06F0CC088<br>6662C3B1296D28F45857DD7A1DE8091E2992A8C66AEBE672F7B59CE1AA68D075480C2CEA7D9ECFCF14938028BCB17FDB55AC385AE8618C713A87BE13CC4E<br>9CF141A7FA1124BD00738D04132E9E39E8E2B3E5FE830CBD5E902F5B86EBC65A64E8B2EF2E62BFEF17E515924F0437A62585FDAF7E10E22D3E2217CB5D14<br>CA3867FA3E3C6676A7919F328E6E
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 (289) 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\ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea.exe"
    1⤵
    • UAC bypass
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    • System policy modification
    PID:2440
    • 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:1864
    • 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:1644
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2560
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2956
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2140
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {D8FF32E6-546B-44F2-9639-D72F3F9D42AF} S-1-5-21-1014134971-2480516131-292343513-1000:NYBYVYTJ\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:748
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:3008

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    8645a413332f840e925bac3cf19ceb57

    SHA1

    87ca0cd2e1c04c2437d302f2864d1e68ea991677

    SHA256

    ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea

    SHA512

    ac23c7f28deb3700847bcbf3305e1d6ef133d8ecb45010092024d696ba3839ea53aeee87077f3efc88f9d933673a7147edb862c2ac5636f9f63c3809a557625e

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    8645a413332f840e925bac3cf19ceb57

    SHA1

    87ca0cd2e1c04c2437d302f2864d1e68ea991677

    SHA256

    ac81418b0b932a228d2312e0fb78c8e427e71560a413f702528127c7a59640ea

    SHA512

    ac23c7f28deb3700847bcbf3305e1d6ef133d8ecb45010092024d696ba3839ea53aeee87077f3efc88f9d933673a7147edb862c2ac5636f9f63c3809a557625e

  • C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT.LOG2

    Filesize

    536B

    MD5

    b88b20bf27a89a40235189cfc8dee56e

    SHA1

    d4f50ee2c88996b7ec0c4712531f5cf43ca9c93e

    SHA256

    6bf94766f0453c25a0a5c5ce02b45f64ed9e002a077ca9c6b05fb99507ea3978

    SHA512

    0e05fd663a1b08b19302f5fcf4d1b9edfe38b62ec0a5ad0900b1727693d36131adff4a5811cfad18f5c48c33efb563fca21936796bdaa9a14df3fb94cb0d4a4c

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

    Filesize

    5KB

    MD5

    45d34685bc1340ad4796bb146e0c5aeb

    SHA1

    c833b2893e445172342d412ed55f2508cfe981a8

    SHA256

    1abb4f74839dff99d28fc24c84fd3d6ad4d2d30465b46caa02dd283efbc28a47

    SHA512

    17b11de6fe7d891c46a90cc95155dc331cdc0310ba93182a9a60d5d7b919dced0600285db90f88e2a1bdf8be2a1c3d3e5a18913dd646920a53937662994151ba