Severity
High
Analysis Summary
DanaBot is a persistent and ever-evolving threat that has been circulating in the wild since 2018. DanaBot was originally marketed as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering primarily targeted banking fraud and data theft. It has, however, getting more advanced and intricate as time has progressed. DanaBot is a high-risk trojan-type malware that infiltrates the system and collects a variety of sensitive data. DanaBot is spread by developers through spam email campaigns. Users get unsolicited emails with false content encouraging them to open MS Office documents attached. When these attachments are accessed, DanaBot is secretly downloaded and installed.
Infected email attachments, malicious online advertisements, social engineering, and software cracks are the distribution methods of this Trojan.
Impact
- Password & identity theft
- Data Exfiltration
- Information Theft
Indicators of Compromise
MD5
- f724c8b485088c69883ab727c1582b3f
SHA-256
- c5a2e2bb1ef55f626266a5716fe286884d7f3b996876cdeab249e321441f8636
SHA-1
- 0242600156c5733eb81cd839115d011bb3e35d95
Remediation
- Block all the threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.