Analysis

  • max time kernel
    44s
  • max time network
    34s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20240802-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20240802-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64system
  • submitted
    03-09-2024 20:36

General

  • Target

    2c7aeac07ce7f03b74952e0e243bd52f2bfa60fadc92dd71a6a1fee2d14cdd77.exe

  • Size

    879KB

  • MD5

    2a7a76cde7e970c06316e3ae4feadbe3

  • SHA1

    89d195f59bba9c3b43635607f9f1c3051645332c

  • SHA256

    2c7aeac07ce7f03b74952e0e243bd52f2bfa60fadc92dd71a6a1fee2d14cdd77

  • SHA512

    834f76c0de678d26507fa1a3446cf6336952d36bd2857113f1bbaddf0d33132d4c579bfd232194868c8dc4ddefa66a9c589610e74f4a808787b8edf36f3d5b4f

  • SSDEEP

    24576:dpN2CMwVhLcqnB+c9z2Va31qIU2p1GA3zaIJYj9+M+C6vU1KKoPAFGG+TR3aZX:UC5Uqn4c9z2Vu1qIU2pAA3rM+C6vZJAp

Malware Config

Extracted

Path

C:\PerfLogs\akira_readme.txt

Family

akira

Ransom Note
Hi friends, Whatever who you are and what your title is if you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially dead, all your backups - virtual, physical - everything that we managed to reach - are completely removed. Moreover, we have taken a great amount of your corporate data prior to encryption. Well, for now let's keep all the tears and resentment to ourselves and try to build a constructive dialogue. We're fully aware of what damage we caused by locking your internal sources. At the moment, you have to know: 1. Dealing with us you will save A LOT due to we are not interested in ruining your financially. We will study in depth your finance, bank & income statements, your savings, investments etc. and present our reasonable demand to you. If you have an active cyber insurance, let us know and we will guide you how to properly use it. Also, dragging out the negotiation process will lead to failing of a deal. 2. Paying us you save your TIME, MONEY, EFFORTS and be back on track within 24 hours approximately. Our decryptor works properly on any files or systems, so you will be able to check it by requesting a test decryption service from the beginning of our conversation. If you decide to recover on your own, keep in mind that you can permanently lose access to some files or accidently corrupt them - in this case we won't be able to help. 3. The security report or the exclusive first-hand information that you will receive upon reaching an agreement is of a great value, since NO full audit of your network will show you the vulnerabilities that we've managed to detect and used in order to get into, identify backup solutions and upload your data. 4. As for your data, if we fail to agree, we will try to sell personal information/trade secrets/databases/source codes - generally speaking, everything that has a value on the darkmarket - to multiple threat actors at ones. Then all of this will be published in our blog - https://akiral2iz6a7qgd3ayp3l6yub7xx2uep76idk3u2kollpj5z3z636bad.onion. 5. We're more than negotiable and will definitely find the way to settle this quickly and reach an agreement which will satisfy both of us. If you're indeed interested in our assistance and the services we provide you can reach out to us following simple instructions: 1. Install TOR Browser to get access to our chat room - https://www.torproject.org/download/. 2. Paste this link - https://akiralkzxzq2dsrzsrvbr2xgbbu2wgsmxryd4csgfameg52n7efvr2id.onion. 3. Use this code - 6729-HK-NIZN-WOPQ - to log into our chat. Keep in mind that the faster you will get in touch, the less damage we cause.
URLs

https://akiral2iz6a7qgd3ayp3l6yub7xx2uep76idk3u2kollpj5z3z636bad.onion

https://akiralkzxzq2dsrzsrvbr2xgbbu2wgsmxryd4csgfameg52n7efvr2id.onion

Signatures

  • Akira

    Akira is a ransomware first seen in March 2023 and targets several industries, including education, finance, real estate, manufacturing, and consulting.

  • Process spawned unexpected child process 1 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers 1 TTPs

    Malicious Access or copy of Web Browser Credential store.

  • Renames multiple (9654) files with added filename extension

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

  • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may achieve persistence by adding a Registry key to the Active Setup of the local machine.

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell command to delete shadowcopy.

  • Credentials from Password Stores: Windows Credential Manager 1 TTPs

    Suspicious access to Credentials History.

  • Drops startup file 3 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs

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

  • Drops file in Program Files directory 64 IoCs
  • Browser Information Discovery 1 TTPs

    Enumerate browser information.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 14 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 11 IoCs
  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

    The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2c7aeac07ce7f03b74952e0e243bd52f2bfa60fadc92dd71a6a1fee2d14cdd77.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2c7aeac07ce7f03b74952e0e243bd52f2bfa60fadc92dd71a6a1fee2d14cdd77.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops startup file
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    PID:5092
  • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
    powershell.exe -Command "Get-WmiObject Win32_Shadowcopy | Remove-WmiObject"
    1⤵
    • Process spawned unexpected child process
    • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:4344
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:3084
  • C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {9aa46009-3ce0-458a-a354-715610a075e6} -Embedding
    1⤵
      PID:4112
    • C:\Windows\explorer.exe
      explorer.exe
      1⤵
      • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup
      • Modifies registry class
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
      PID:3080

    Network

    MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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    Downloads

    • C:\PerfLogs\akira_readme.txt

      Filesize

      2KB

      MD5

      e158265e513c5b865b19240370d4cb81

      SHA1

      4a37838237b622bc8f6049cf62573d7ed69b1a25

      SHA256

      f13ffbbdf446bb88a48de8162406b9b2f97cde15a27ce007a156f4dbd028fb2a

      SHA512

      dd8e241126d131f4d3d4c3936ccb06eef955258573c7337a241cb93fea66e41324caae2ced4548b9e69c7427f3649d134f670607e0e65a13bdaa61b3381cbb34

    • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Caches\{DDF571F2-BE98-426D-8288-1A9A39C3FDA2}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db.akira

      Filesize

      625KB

      MD5

      72e5209257d8410bb745aa984f7d1319

      SHA1

      c27bc740c8574f53dbef1f1a37f1f66df55db15f

      SHA256

      33c133e6f44a5955f2ce0fc0daed16301d250d9e7ee0b94447d099fbb1c9dff1

      SHA512

      41e194faaeaa7829591f19a2e2a0871c8412fc63b72c3d1e1d941acfff5f04de0b3d539309647434fb93a837dc05afe54dc44b788721f186b30e55bc82ff8e04

    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log

      Filesize

      3KB

      MD5

      a84c9599127090590242ca5849fa9be5

      SHA1

      c1d34db930c2a402172219a0276a1fc778c51c30

      SHA256

      2b0f714a046c7ff79fd87c6987e5de1d49bd747298f20c786a986faf0ae767fe

      SHA512

      68d6ffa33525994cb244454221feb888fd4d2085c57bad0f5e60988b2eced0c8be49be308143fba1b7a13a41c44b2db7b0a60b1efe3a281579f4fd4b25e0e231

    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

      Filesize

      576B

      MD5

      7eadd0560d8bd3ffbb5047548b9154c5

      SHA1

      892a2de7dcadb1a704f6d25ff0dc11d144a27400

      SHA256

      3ec0a34b69c5ea9bbc826177b879a15dfaad1250ecee225738512a789a2b3c83

      SHA512

      69234fc002adb928e84c3bb946a32cf36fb3829664b05fc7aedac6bed8810f12eff32466f54ff3814ba7765b5929ab2127a9b5c8fd6e8cf2dffd757391ad531c

    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_4ac3hwax.war.ps1

      Filesize

      60B

      MD5

      d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641

      SHA1

      6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d

      SHA256

      96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7

      SHA512

      5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

    • memory/4344-0-0x00007FFFB4233000-0x00007FFFB4235000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      8KB

    • memory/4344-6-0x000001AEEC0B0000-0x000001AEEC0D2000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      136KB

    • memory/4344-10-0x00007FFFB4230000-0x00007FFFB4CF2000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      10.8MB

    • memory/4344-11-0x00007FFFB4230000-0x00007FFFB4CF2000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      10.8MB

    • memory/4344-12-0x00007FFFB4230000-0x00007FFFB4CF2000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      10.8MB

    • memory/4344-15-0x00007FFFB4230000-0x00007FFFB4CF2000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      10.8MB