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Analysis

  • max time kernel
    95s
  • max time network
    154s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20250217-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20250217-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    03/03/2025, 09:51

General

  • Target

    2025-03-03_3dd09859e6326eeb09f023dbf1b81290_akira_cobalt-strike.exe

  • Size

    1.0MB

  • MD5

    3dd09859e6326eeb09f023dbf1b81290

  • SHA1

    0690b0fba2a0d3ae5ec50f8feafcef306dab3cc7

  • SHA256

    78ffecf887f745fbb0bf9a1fff8b5ad288c7fa0d86989edfa928a40da12e9a33

  • SHA512

    978eebc51bcf5d7d7d97c6cc4f4757c3c4bcf0cbad3e685b0bdc4dbd0b8216622e47b2c042aeb8a36de40563f086a30a4064db3c302266f8185cc6f408e9116f

  • SSDEEP

    24576:FTyLPsJjVjzhWwiENiUGC86pNV2GNxgr+oBwGDGs:FTyLPsJjVjzliE0opNV2G7gr+o+Gh

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/3527518935-GIUDY 3. Use this code - 3276-AT-OLSH-GPKE - 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/3527518935-GIUDY

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 (8796) 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\2025-03-03_3dd09859e6326eeb09f023dbf1b81290_akira_cobalt-strike.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-03-03_3dd09859e6326eeb09f023dbf1b81290_akira_cobalt-strike.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops startup file
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:1184
  • 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:2832
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:3056

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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Downloads

  • C:\PerfLogs\akira_readme.txt

    Filesize

    2KB

    MD5

    a53425e3126b2f18cbfe2a0564002dcc

    SHA1

    33c54b1246fc070b7f4a8ab96750d11470b3addf

    SHA256

    de8cbfe0366a0c2a1921aed25f0110cc7c800c04dfff985c1de27dc047bf715e

    SHA512

    99bdeb1115716c0c1302ca8343f51d3bc4539a72b57b4b27c70cb5dd85b7a07e263461f9e7a8d12c75058963f0e80709afad9c164fce6979780bb101efb9d2b9

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

    Filesize

    3KB

    MD5

    5700b11a08c181af5e1ee839b3eb59c5

    SHA1

    b583c3ea8084b45c830f248f1653673244c565c6

    SHA256

    87924fa009df22e794dec84e1d1cc8ba89d10932081da83fa7b7113906e2885a

    SHA512

    cfa9a05a259af0bfcf79bb680afa8189ef2227636b83383962cf4a87a014ad261cf553d375df06adafe6221bbc3e9f937e05a429881ea02659ae70ab01d87502

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_m2z5xwfp.b2y.ps1

    Filesize

    60B

    MD5

    d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641

    SHA1

    6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d

    SHA256

    96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7

    SHA512

    5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

  • memory/2832-0-0x00007FFB8C8B3000-0x00007FFB8C8B5000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    8KB

  • memory/2832-1-0x000002D7A2DB0000-0x000002D7A2DD2000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    136KB

  • memory/2832-11-0x00007FFB8C8B0000-0x00007FFB8D371000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/2832-12-0x00007FFB8C8B0000-0x00007FFB8D371000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB

  • memory/2832-15-0x00007FFB8C8B0000-0x00007FFB8D371000-memory.dmp

    Filesize

    10.8MB