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 08:59

General

  • Target

    f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6.exe

  • Size

    666KB

  • MD5

    bb442cfc088a89e0c353ed20fb8cbf8b

  • SHA1

    1477ae595f2fb3cf7ffdee788b748db253236d0c

  • SHA256

    f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6

  • SHA512

    ea2b42aa7e9aab775cf607ba0e5034edde3b07a1d913109337cd32bff4f45f6d054e434ccbccdc5a0dbf6901db7431d279c11f8dd8b1b56af1f84dfc3006f5e4

  • SSDEEP

    12288:ZYW1LNT35lDbK/LIVaN8+T7vwqyqhYMhWt918vulA2C9+m:dd35lDbKDIwWUDyqS5omTC9+

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: 223C861692E47AC4C743232080D865BB18922A4A9248027D01C102DE9765143AE74C44684F8D95578E2ED56F247477B6F397BB455F65A2AFA83FEDBF1BC72C54<br>FA8C4AF0D6C63E6378E53744B67F7D452E0D7EBB2C6688B3BFDAF9518322F9AC1959A66250D82177B8AA4084A732EC01B8F1380FF94F984B08BA5A0A6648<br>D7A9761E9E347EBF844656D9F9CEE67A997FA5CC449CB7D6B1EC9AC7419AE2B923CD534F2476821CC060845118F75CFDF2DF56A962AD3E876773E0FD1FE5<br>9A010E3C102230DF642CECDC6881D14725B9716BF50AD4C761E691ED0E4CE0777C36558C1C041751797AB0829FD7F88D0B12FEAF8452CF95495930991D02<br>697EE21271A20EB0B2E22EEC52D5AEF09AB37ECECAD9478B2CBD68F28A82FFC96BC340E72E203027B15F7F05F498929523A45569D2E075276403C5DB55E8<br>2826697AB7DDB12A4CA42696C168CAE462B89DDA75A6BD7518C77527A8F36A52D510BB28CF58DCDAECC8C9E845035842771379279958B2683FA76CE0867B<br>2FCB2AA971F928F9D161BC74DCD212AD74E2A2B00915E264F2E2446E538FF46A36A9292AD6F302EB7A72AE1A327355C4E0504807728C31D21572AE5B4D4E<br>8DE1E86901F839E5D3DC4540ADFB16ABCF6AC28ABF6B1C6FCF5F696C3F674E7DE5339FFEECD1BF5685B1DEEE89E1E71145115878B5DCC7B3664588A61F22<br>88D86E30CA48E7E96EF96BCC47A0
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 (292) 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\f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6.exe"
    1⤵
    • UAC bypass
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    • System policy modification
    PID:1672
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:1764
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:528
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2992
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2868
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vssadmin.exe
      vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet
      2⤵
      • Interacts with shadow copies
      PID:2896
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Wbem\wmic.exe
      wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1180
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2928
  • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
    taskeng.exe {8CCA3037-236A-4B2C-9E86-632F4EAB3BEE} S-1-5-21-377084978-2088738870-2818360375-1000:DSWJWADP\Admin:Interactive:[1]
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1932
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:700

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    bb442cfc088a89e0c353ed20fb8cbf8b

    SHA1

    1477ae595f2fb3cf7ffdee788b748db253236d0c

    SHA256

    f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6

    SHA512

    ea2b42aa7e9aab775cf607ba0e5034edde3b07a1d913109337cd32bff4f45f6d054e434ccbccdc5a0dbf6901db7431d279c11f8dd8b1b56af1f84dfc3006f5e4

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

    Filesize

    666KB

    MD5

    bb442cfc088a89e0c353ed20fb8cbf8b

    SHA1

    1477ae595f2fb3cf7ffdee788b748db253236d0c

    SHA256

    f0c2c9663215a97b04f1f97cb34c99c2cf06ba502fd1f1ad4922ead45fa442a6

    SHA512

    ea2b42aa7e9aab775cf607ba0e5034edde3b07a1d913109337cd32bff4f45f6d054e434ccbccdc5a0dbf6901db7431d279c11f8dd8b1b56af1f84dfc3006f5e4

  • C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT.LOG2

    Filesize

    536B

    MD5

    bf28a2aa65489f10d7ef27c3d1639cb1

    SHA1

    afa3dc07647b5dbcbf55f49c844fe032757a4f40

    SHA256

    66146d18939d4ec6cc65a8ee0f295a71ea956adad90111ede169a8d73aa48257

    SHA512

    e12b1475d9c0dbec15955e3a01882d76f96f7d3cace8b03cb54f3cf5b2c221ad24c6073c745c6a4f15d7dcf9708e40efba70c7bef8ebf6449447ad3be174a488

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

    Filesize

    5KB

    MD5

    99467eb98de371babdbe9cee761cf284

    SHA1

    ec87fc4de92d7040423519ffef1a7c09be99a634

    SHA256

    801df5118773e0c596cba8e32104395f379a360f2269aada1ececcc1ee798d08

    SHA512

    84c57cb75c23f38cf249756730c556b1ddb5851942f1007c41bef4fa9810121111c04b804d5a83f5703601c4c8efffa48f591fb9e0f1b648d17b6276772997c5