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
- cd9b26ca0eb4be461c5443642b4dbd79
SHA-256
- 4232d40c3f3522c57ffb70ffe2b2bfcd6aadc20afd12b323b360ad0719472898
SHA-1
- fd2eb935bf059dae7974a80c61d2a15149181f4a
Remediation
- Block all the threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.