Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Dridex is a sophisticated strain of banking malware that targets the Windows platform, delivering spam campaigns to infect computers and steal banking credentials and other personal information to facilitate fraudulent money transfers. Through its history and development, Dridex has used several exploits and methods for execution, including modification of directory files, using system recovery to escalate privileges, and modification of firewall rules to facilitate peer-to-peer communication for extraction of data. The malware’s main use is to steal banking credentials and it has been attributed to the TA505 threat group (aka Evil Corp) known to have been active since at least Q3 2014.

Impact

• Credential Theft
• Financial Loss
• Exposure of Sensitive Data

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• ee93bd59830802f6279dc24a69896125

SHA-256

• 6217669c2151192fb6a8ee94f483a064aec022a626555361c06a06eb25cf0a3e

SHA-1

• cc8bd90897f644e5781c275f6ba15c2a3543c799

Remediation

• Block all the threat indicators at your respective controls.
• Search for IOCs in your environment.