Analysis

  • max time kernel
    95s
  • max time network
    143s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20250129-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20250129-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    05-02-2025 05:26

General

  • Target

    b9c1e8700e39c6768be9d6bcb092cd6abe80d4244fc437566b58721cdc7d61ff.exe

  • Size

    1.0MB

  • MD5

    2918b9ddaf12a57f6710c07515b27a8b

  • SHA1

    c145a2e1b6352e9707921bcd1e16dce1796256f9

  • SHA256

    b9c1e8700e39c6768be9d6bcb092cd6abe80d4244fc437566b58721cdc7d61ff

  • SHA512

    eb6bbf4a36e4a63f8f8175793b42ed246595ea075ffac252c3dbb5d7e7082a5f062193a70b58b99a120899e10b76091a614ba6a57d0cec6e7785691c2bff505e

  • SSDEEP

    12288:RU/gkiCJVmaeyY1/29UDdxcKw9RKlRm5NulkMekVqjx8FqbzXuv+vS+hX4Ffq7Yr:RU/NjjmT2SDdXk8FqbzX9S+2FfdFV

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/d/5135527370-SZVRK 3. Use this code - 2343-TY-HICO-YRIT - 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/d/5135527370-SZVRK

Signatures

  • Akira

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

  • Akira family
  • Process spawned unexpected child process 1 IoCs

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

  • Renames multiple (8450) 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 3 TTPs

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

  • Drops desktop.ini file(s) 31 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\b9c1e8700e39c6768be9d6bcb092cd6abe80d4244fc437566b58721cdc7d61ff.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\b9c1e8700e39c6768be9d6bcb092cd6abe80d4244fc437566b58721cdc7d61ff.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops startup file
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:3516
  • 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:712
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:1748

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

  • C:\PerfLogs\akira_readme.txt

    Filesize

    2KB

    MD5

    71bb9c38a85ccca3a987d17614d1f98d

    SHA1

    ce6f1b87f405a85b7295b6f1c616eeacfa97989f

    SHA256

    28e5f51277899ea3de9bf35645b54d522ee134ff21f1ca3e4e7545605bdfce3a

    SHA512

    d0a7b254fb5963bd963b713ebff8f961dea67b79fc235ffebf529e6166bcf250ce4363a429f4fdeeed0b2f51c2067deb4a84ae488aac212b95829d79103d9ada

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

    Filesize

    3KB

    MD5

    925cce77062d2c8fc9bf4be1fd9cde96

    SHA1

    04cb7134e31d264c0a04aeaadbd4a03e83563e5b

    SHA256

    fabdb2d8753a685b39d0ea86620e3521256653c58d46b054672ef9b170f4beb2

    SHA512

    f16b7610ad2203d86cd898c89172d72c930f5139646ffb370a5d66ecc4a1f0fc93bcd8dcb9f8622a4286fa58f03c0840745aeabba46621c8e7b02cf144e1666a

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_o0jrt4vr.hwa.ps1

    Filesize

    60B

    MD5

    d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641

    SHA1

    6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d

    SHA256

    96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7

    SHA512

    5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

  • memory/712-0-0x00007FFC728D3000-0x00007FFC728D5000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/712-1-0x00000283EC680000-0x00000283EC6A2000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    136KB

  • memory/712-11-0x00007FFC728D0000-0x00007FFC73391000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/712-12-0x00007FFC728D0000-0x00007FFC73391000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/712-15-0x00007FFC728D0000-0x00007FFC73391000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB