Analysis

  • max time kernel
    93s
  • max time network
    122s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20240802-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20240802-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    04-09-2024 12:29

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:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\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 (9228) 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 16 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 8 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:2804
  • 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:2628
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2504
  • 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:4836

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\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

    623KB

    MD5

    ec0ba9774c88f3fcd2830ff8979435d8

    SHA1

    be058f4f27587dab14124ea3c7aeeaec3dd44d04

    SHA256

    8598f8908a176436b16e009ab9c218f5c691bb59bfcad1825bf35b1318ce5364

    SHA512

    1a6860271433efa027d4e49b20efed14db3f297ed7e4d9b1fec3216f1aa79b4cb1ec464e4cb78f1d49d4d537fad83b370f56b39d291f2d76b1cca67a326d3cfd

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

    Filesize

    3KB

    MD5

    f7b4f38647946f577ecf626f201b4547

    SHA1

    29a07183389ddfb82adbdd8ae7126439d889b7ba

    SHA256

    54b88a667e4c8ea67e066471a3cc93d06e7b5aa450ed68dbdeae031bf725bc28

    SHA512

    bad36c1289eb39aba8c33e2ff3aa32285e4b1339aae7c26cd3a1c814a6292034940da8d7c09475cbb17daae7e3b4338d7f3af97ebbd4b5f0f6ab24fe225bbfa1

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

    Filesize

    576B

    MD5

    727be0af88c5de3d8fc82e52d002935d

    SHA1

    124403879b2b1f737fd9bf3d50a742c23602a72b

    SHA256

    31cf266a3da03cdc06befa9d6cac5ad9ffc308fd56c8feabbc6670367ea4f157

    SHA512

    1b93acc8cce66a6aa1f0241df2fc402627a34a136ec66d35c49e85377e78fffe61fca4cd9a09f9b703ca3bc43ee1459eb22c03f0317d8d63bdfac340825e2aea

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_3zzfqwti.wqh.ps1

    Filesize

    60B

    MD5

    d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641

    SHA1

    6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d

    SHA256

    96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7

    SHA512

    5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

  • memory/2628-0-0x00007FFFD6753000-0x00007FFFD6755000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2628-10-0x0000021542F10000-0x0000021542F32000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    136KB

  • memory/2628-11-0x00007FFFD6750000-0x00007FFFD7211000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/2628-12-0x00007FFFD6750000-0x00007FFFD7211000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/2628-15-0x00007FFFD6750000-0x00007FFFD7211000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB