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
- bd4997ebff91845bbf03ec4ffe4ea9d7
- 8613141b3404f6aaea9e6bb965f5ea70
SHA-256
- cb8a4b83b05afe07ca828181964c8277e53852e0877339a55cded8719ed31153
- 2ecd284f5c0671bc42c5f6d2e2607701871a53b0aadd18ab0911a2b4c471cc1f
SHA-1
- d4ecfc23f92946fbc022d2ac8530dc4afc854fcc
- f3fb438c25441edeaf2b685e76e48e059ac8003e
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.