Analysis

  • max time kernel
    119s
  • max time network
    119s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20240903-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20240903-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    04-09-2024 13:35

General

  • Target

    2e88e55cc8ee364bf90e7a51671366efb3dac3e9468005b044164ba0f1624422.sample.exe

  • Size

    1005KB

  • MD5

    2940779f88cf063ca5dcf861ec7bf325

  • SHA1

    de858b475bf1b0c16bbc0ab15b21690f739344cd

  • SHA256

    2e88e55cc8ee364bf90e7a51671366efb3dac3e9468005b044164ba0f1624422

  • SHA512

    4ab9b45b82f33c1e2683c3a105151262ff48711319f875a0ec9ad61d2017bfe027b0981b10f6d3b7c9d18691d9dac8f0f72cb7e344ef9839689f8eb58a813a99

  • SSDEEP

    12288:wbWIqB/A1gv9XQ7ZNlZDV3LEWI+Xx+uBW6y4qNmhj:wbyxv9XQ7B3oWI+XHW6y4r

Malware Config

Extracted

Path

C:\PerfLogs\Admin\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 - 0878-VP-TTNC-EKCZ - 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.

  • Renames multiple (8600) files with added filename extension

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

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell command to delete shadowcopy.

  • Drops startup file 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) 47 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 1 IoCs
  • Drops file in Program Files directory 64 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 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\2e88e55cc8ee364bf90e7a51671366efb3dac3e9468005b044164ba0f1624422.sample.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2e88e55cc8ee364bf90e7a51671366efb3dac3e9468005b044164ba0f1624422.sample.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops startup file
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:2120
  • 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
    • Drops file in System32 directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2040
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:2732

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

  • C:\PerfLogs\Admin\akira_readme.txt

    Filesize

    2KB

    MD5

    28e69596b22d0c725b5ff19d44fe51f4

    SHA1

    1b961bba481d07ef95d46a8664f7a8efce1e63e1

    SHA256

    9e1ddf491227a781f3914d8657769c7ec35394dbcfdddc87f54c40e2db1636b3

    SHA512

    54927f56e7ed3d8184e4f0c2eb6d0d982ed111ad508a91f4794781248f0d92e2003b0980dd8bf9891de82f2bf2c33a2276cb930de6bd6ca0abc2e2239f230b86

  • memory/2040-4-0x000007FEF5C4E000-0x000007FEF5C4F000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    4KB

  • memory/2040-5-0x000000001B610000-0x000000001B8F2000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    2.9MB

  • memory/2040-6-0x0000000001EF0000-0x0000000001EF8000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    32KB

  • memory/2040-7-0x000007FEF5990000-0x000007FEF632D000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    9.6MB

  • memory/2040-8-0x000007FEF5990000-0x000007FEF632D000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    9.6MB

  • memory/2040-9-0x000007FEF5990000-0x000007FEF632D000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    9.6MB

  • memory/2040-10-0x000007FEF5990000-0x000007FEF632D000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    9.6MB