Rewterz Threat Alert – Dridex Banking Malware

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 transfer. 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

• 1acf5a575d4a3ccf89f4c580a36caa9d
• a1e60d76e422df0bcbcbd04736558113
• b87d9b04a2f8e11cf63d7ed8e9ada570

SHA-256

• d987da2edc194b08694df2c82f0bdffe81e26a7ce0f76cf26336f5cb18084bb3
• 255995667a9a05831875a40be90deb7249afc94628b9a1676d9c4b859968b3f9
• e0921f4f97a4694b11e4da2b51c2410c5c6b937506cff6daf79812ba4248668d
• 3d6befba9e90985653043756ed3a4f73c3b2a22a9654bedf0822d76d4a4ffb6f

SHA1

• e1aae174c35d683029499e2154a0cadd58e7da8c
• b1d8837fee65f4f9cb0fffbca1e02a7f07612a58
• 90cb9bc5414c5b9c9810edd990de6b86c841d942

Remediation

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